Page Feur Heppner Gazette Times THE HEPPNER GAZETTE. Established March 80. 1883; THE HEPPNER TIMES. Established November 18, 1897; CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15, 1913 Published every Thursday morning by CRAWFORD PUBLISHING COMPANY and entered at the Post Office at Hepp ner, Oregon, as second-class matter. JASPER V. CRAWFORD, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $2.00 Three Years 8.00 Six Months 1.00 Three Months . .75 Single Copies .05 Official Paper for Morrow County THE WHEAT LEAGUE AND OUR TOWN. Recently, the Eastern Oregon Wheat League delegates descended upon our town in great numbers, held a splendid convention, dissem inating much present needed infor mation, and departed with the gen erally expressed idea that Heppner had treated them royally. I am rather proud of the manner in which the good people of Hepp ner and surrounding territory treat ed the members and delegates of the league and I want to take this me thod of expressing my appreciation of the services which our people rendered. I cannot begin to name everybody so I will just mention them by groups. First the general committee on arrangments are to be congratulated on the success of the meeting. They did a good job and very few, if any, were disappointed. I thank those persons who donat ed courtesy cars and the bully boys who drove them. I didn't know wo had so many ready and willing boys in the whole country. The banquet was a big success and we thank those who donated dishes, cutlery, tables, chairs, etc., the cooks and those waitresses. We must say that our girls are just as swell as our boys. The management was excel lent and everything went off just like clockwork. I was somewhat disapp.i' ited that we could not fill all the rooms that were so generously offered, and es pecially those rooms that folks wanted to rent. But we filled only about 25 percent of the rooms offer ed and none of the CCC camp. That does not mean that our crowd was small, for it was reported that more than 700 attended the Saturday mor ning session and heard Mr. Evans speaK. uut me j 'unman cars on the Union Pacific housed between 300 and 400. When the cars were ordered it was thought they would be needed. I am especially grateful to all the women and girls who assisted with the housing and registration com mittees, also to the churches who came to the rescue on the food prob lem. Our school, teachers and stu dents alke gave valuable assistance and our high school band did itself proud as usual. I never knew so much cooperation could be had from so many people. We have 1140 people in our town and I believe if it were needed, we could have the services of 1140 for a special occasion. I never really understood before what was meant by the Bible verse, "Ask and ye shall receive." Just ask the good folks of Heppner to do something for a common cause and you will know what that means. If all the people of all the cities of our great nation would cooperate and work like the folks of Heppner, the Japs and Hitler can come on over any time and we will lick the stuffin's out of them in short order. J. O. TURNER, Mayor. HOW IS YOUR SCHOOL SPIRIT? (Contributed) What would you do, and think, if this school would disband all its athletics? You know, if this was done, you would see more of "your" younger set hanging around the various dives, smoking, drinking, and cutting up. But you couldn't blame them because they wouldn't have anything else to do. The school sports can't continue unless they nav. and they won't pay unless the school has more support than it has been getting in the past years. It is very nice to go down town after a game and have one of the prominent business men come up and ask you how the game came out, Heppner Julian Rauch and Son Make Extended Trip People of the South just don't talk, observed Julian Rauch on his return this week from a four weeks' tour of the mid-west and south in com pany with his son Irvin. They first went to Chicago for the National Livestock exposition and a fortnight stay at the home of Mr. Rauch's sis ter, whom he had not seen for 28 years that was one of the main reasons for the journey, made by car. Their trip, however, took them on south from Chicago into Ken tucky where they approached within 200 yards of Uncle Sam's big gold depository, and at Fort Knox visited nephew and cousin, Henry Rauch who had just come off the rifle range with a score of 44 out of a possible 50, "and he sure was glad" to see the folks from home. The cottton belt visited had a poor one of the big business men who was too busy to go to the game. Without backing no one can do anything. Why don't the town peo ple come out and back their young people as the young people do their projects? Is it because they have no confidence in them? That is what the young people are beginning to believe. r FIRST Gazette Times, Heppner, crop this year, said Mr. Rauch, but the price was good. Being a farmer himself, he was anxious to compare notes with farmers of that region, but they just wouldn't answer his questions. At the exposition Oregon had a wheat display that was topped only by that entered by Kansas. Mr. Rauch returned with a picture of a famous team of shire horses shown by a St. Louis brewery. The entire show was crammed with interest as were many points about Chicago, in cluding the Brooklyn zoo, aquarium and many more. The immense forests of oil fields in Texas, forests of cacti in Arizona, and forests of redwoods in California were all given acclaim. They had intended visiting Mex ico, said Mr. Rauch, but on reach ing El Paso on Monday, the day after the outbreak of hostilities in Hawaii, they contented themselves with looking across the border. Mr. Rauch did run across a form er westerner in the south, who, in the presence of a number of natives, extolled the fame of the big trees of Oregon and Washington, the beauties of the Columbia river, the bigness of the salmon and other things hav ing no counterpart in the southern regions. In an aside later, one of the native listeners asked Mr. Rauch if w$mw jf-'7 i $ ww vtef 1 SO CHRISTMAS MAY COME AGAIN ...TO CHILDREN EVERYWHERE p. If I t ftil TJ nrtrrcTc'iM mm NATIONAL BANK OF PORTLAND Oregon what the man had said were really true. MANGLES HAND Archie Padberg received a badly mangled right hand recently when the fingers were caught between the piler chain and sprocket while working at the Morrow County Grain Growers warehouse at Lex ington. A fellow workman inad vertently pulled the lever of the starting clutch while Mr. Padberg had his hand on the chain, and the clutch grabbed so quickly it caught him unawares. The member has been responding to treatment, with no show of infection, but the injury has kept Mr. Padberg off the job. LOCAL MAN WINS PRIZE Irl Clary was one of nine winners in Oregon in, a recent contest spon sored by Sperry Flour company, en- does the NEW YORK what do Policy No. 11621969 $1000 Ordinary Life, annual prmium $20.50 includes disability and accidental death benefits, has borne divi dends since second year of policy. 1941 Regular Dividend $5.55 1941 Extra Dividend $5.00 and would have been larger had the policy not included benefits. Could you find a more PRACTICAL GIFT for any member of the family? Pays if you LIVE pays if you die. o Smd STAMPS Thursday, December 18, 1941 titling him to $25 worth of groceries at Thomson Bros, store, according to announcement just released by the company. The local store was des ignated on the winner's entry slip as his grocer. THOMAS GONTY WEDS Edmond Gonty received announce ment this week that his brother, Thomas Louis had taken Miss Mar guerite Kathleene Fuller of Sher man, Texas as his bride. The cere mony was performed Monday, De cember 8. The young couple will reside in Detroit, Mich. OPENS NEW SALON Sarah Jane Woelfer has opened a salon in the Roberts building where she is featuring Dermetics. Mrs. Woelfer is very familiar with the product, having sold and used it for the past eight years. LIFE pay dividends? nk? YOU think V! 1