RODEO DIRECTORS
NAMED; AUG. 14
TO 16 PROPOSED
August 14-15-16 are the dates
tentatively proposed by newly el
ected directors for staging the Hepp
ner Rodeo this year, if circumstan
ces permit staging the show, it was
announced by the directors who met
Tuesday evening following their el
ection at the Elks hall.
Lee Beckner was named president
of the association to succeed himself,
while F. W. Turner took over the
duties of Len L. Gilliam as secretary,
Gilliam asking to be relieved after
18 years of service. Other directors
named are "Buzz" Fisk, J. Logie
Richardson, Ralph Jackson, Earle
Bryant and Dr. R. C. Lawrence.
The directors selected the dates
stated pending information from the
Browning Carnival company as to
whether they could be here the fol
lowing week end, August 21-22-23,
in which case the latter dates would
be preferred.
The directors are proceeding as if
the show will go on, subject to can
cellation of plans at any time. They
state no expense is involved until
shortly before time for staging the
show, in any event.
No matter what happens to Rodeo,
Clifford Conrad, county agent, says
a 4- Hfair will be presented in the
fall. It has been held at Rodeo time
in past years.
The association meeting which el
ected directors drew a small crowd.
B. C. Pinckney expressed sentiment
from a previous discussion by dir
ectors of chamber of commerce that
discouraged holding the Rodeo this
year from a financial standpoint
Pinckney pointed out decrease of
population, the serious tire situation
and other phases of the present sit
uation that might be expected to cut
deeply into receipts from the show,
thus making the staging of as cost
ly a show as in the past a dangerous
venture.
Martin Clark also voiced what he
said was the sentiment generally
prevalent among Heppner business
houses as being opposed to staging
a show this year.' He also asked
. that directors give consideration . to.
the matter of not holding the show
on Sunday.
Rev. Bennie Howe voiced criti
cism he had heard expressed of too
much immorality accompanying the
Rodeo. The criticism was not di
rected' at the show itself, he said.
He, along with the consensus of
those speaking, agreed that Hepp
ner should present some form of
entertainment for the surrounding
community, but no definite propo
sals for a substitute for Rodeo were
given.
It was deemed essential by the
meeting that the Rodeo organization
be kept intact to protect the physi
cal properties for which it has been
responsible in building, the grand
stand barns, corrals and equipment
acquired through past years.
President Beckner said the direc
tors would investigate possibility of
picking up bucking horses locally,
thus cutting a major item of expense,
and otherwise do all possible to put
on a cheaper show, should it be the
desire of the community to proceed.
Tentatively placed in charge of the
various divisions of Rodeo work
were Buzz Fisk, arena; F. W. Tur
ner and Earle Bryant, grounds;
Ralph Jackson and Logie Richard
son, parade; Logie Richardson, con
cessions; R. C. Lawrence, dances.
Morrow-Umatilla
IOOF Meet at Lex
Lexington will be host February
28 to Oddfellows lodges of Umatilla
and Morrow counties, with plans for
the occasion well in hand, announces
George N. Peck, master of the host
lodge. A large attendance of dele
gates from the various lodges in the
two counties is expected.
Among notables expected are El
mer F. Pyne, grand master for Ore
gon; George Haw, president of the
lodge home fund; Jack Watts, past
grand master, and Wm. A. Mar
quand, grand secretary. Arrange
ments are under way to have the
Pendleton lodge drill team put on
a patriotic exhibition in the eve
ning. Norton Lundell has comleted his
course at the sheet metal school in
Pendleton and has accepted a posi
tion with an airplane factory in California.
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Volume 58, Number 51
267 Men Aged 20
To 45 Signed In
Third Select Draft
Chairman Johnson
Commends Board,.
Signers for Response
Total registration of 267 men is
reported by Judge Bert Johnson,
chairman of Morrow county local
board, in the third Selective Service
sign-up in this county Monday. Of
the 267, 248 are registrants of Mor
row county local board and 19 are
registrants of other boards of Ore
gon and other states.
Among the men registering at the
office of the board in Heppner were
"George Washington" and "Oliver
Wendell Holmes." These, of course,
are given names and the surnames
must remain a mystery except in
the records of the local board.
As board chairman, Judge Johnson
expressed his appreciation of the
work done by the chief registrars
and their assistants.
"The willingness of these people
to give a full day to this registra
tion and the manner in which they
handled the work, keeping the reg
istration running smoothly and on
schedule, is certainly - appreciated
by the local board," said Mr. John
son. The chief registrars and their
assistants handling the registration
of their respective districts were:
Irrigon, A. C. Houghton, chief, and
Winston Bunnell; Boardman, S. C.
Russell, chief, and Rhoda M Con
yers and Leola B. Tannehill; lone,
Lee Beckner, chief, Walter G. Rob
erts and Frances Carlson; Lexington,
H. O. Bauman, chief, Thelma Smeth
urst, Jeanette Browning and Mar
garet Browning; Haidman, Clarence
Rogers, chief, and Opal Adams.
Morrow county local board also
wishes to thank the chief registrars
of Irrigon, Boardman and Hardman
for the use of their business places
and the lone post of the American
Legion and the I. O. O. F. of Lex
ington for the use of their halls as
places of registration.
MUSTANGS PLAY
FOR LEAGUE LEAD
The Heppner Mustangs will
play the Boardman basketball
team on the Umatilla gym floor
tomorrow (Friday) evening to de
termine the championship of the
Big Wheat league and Little Wheat
league.
Boardman is at the top of the
Little Wheat league and Heppner
leads in the Big Wheat league.
Both teams will be doing their
best' and it should prove to be a
good game, according to the local
high school reporter.
Home Ec Conference
March 14, Planned
Work on the high school home ec
onomics conference to be held here
March 14 was begun recently. A
committee composed of first and
second semester officers of the high
school home economics club have
been meeting at the noon hour. Each
' member of this committee heads one
of the sub-committees, entertain
ment, reception, registration, lun
cheon, decoration, and special guests.
The conference will include Uma
tilla, Morrow, Gilliam, Wasco and
Sherman counties. Some eighteen
high schools are expected to be rep
resented. Another conference is set
at Ontario later in the spring.
This is the first conference en
tertaned by the local school in some
time. Miss Dorothy Gene Davolt,
the home economics club adviser, is
directing the girls in the work.
An auditor from the office of the
state tax commission will be in
Heppner, at the courthouse, March
2 to assist in making out state in
come tax returns. His services are
free to all who desire them.
Scrap to Slap the Jap
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XEM HAVE CUR
SOR. A P,
Farmers of America Uncle Sam Needs Your Scrap Iron!
500,000-Bu. Bullcins
Expansion Planned
Additional bulk storage facilities
for wheat totalling 500,000 bushels
capacity, at Heppner, Lexington and
lone is being planned by Morrow
County Grain Growers to meet the
sack-scarcity and congested -elevator
condition prevailing in the coun
ty, according to announcement of
George N. Peck, president, and D.
W. Glasgow, manager.
Mr. Peck and Mr. Glasgow have
been contacting farmers to deter
mine the amount of additional facil
ities needed, and from the sign-up
so far they have estimated an in
crease of 100,000 bushels capacity at
Heppner, 230,000 at Lexington and
200,000 at lone.
Heppner now has the largest bulk
handling capacity, but with the new
addition at Lexington, the bulk han
dling facilities will be among the
largest in the northwest, in a single
Women's Registration
Underway in County
Registration of women from 18
upwards in the campaign of Ore
gon Board for Mobilization of Wo
men started Monday, according to
announcement of Mrs. Lucy E. Rod
gers, county chairman. Workers are
busy in all districts of the county.
The importance of Oregon wom
en's pace-making registration inno
vation cannot be over-emphasized,
according to Mrs. Rodgers.
"While the government expects
women to work in factories, on
farms and in stores and offices wher
ever they can take the place of men
who are fit for the army or navy in
a gradual mobilization of the na
tion's fighting and production pow
er for total war," she says, "no def
inite measures have been taken on
a national scale to achieve such an
end."
Mrs. Rodgers explained that the
Oregon women's census, if success
ful, may form a pattern for a sim
ilar enterprise on a national scale.
If unsuccessful, despite several mon
ths of intensive state-wide organi
zational activity, a compulsory sur
vey on a national scale may be ex
pected. .
PIONEER PASSES
Word has been received here of
the passing last Sunday of Mrs. Mil
dred J. Swaggart, 89, pioneer resi
dent of Heppner, at her home in
Pendleton where she moved 22 years
ago with her late husband, George
Swaggart whom she married in 1871.
Mrs. Swaggart crossed the plains
with her mother in 1865, settling at
Weston. She is survived by three
children, Wilbur Swaggart of Pen
dleton, Mrs. Josie Couch of San
Francisco, and Mrs. Jack Mills of
Kamiah, Idaho; also five grandchil
dren and ten great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at Pen
dleton yesterday afternoon.
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, February 1 9, 1 942
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plant, outside of terminals.
Plans call for construction of con
crete elevators to be serviced from
plants already installed. Application
is being made for priority rating on
the structural materials where such
rating is necessary.
Farmers who are interested in ob
taining more storage may get de
tails from the local managers at ei
ther Heppner, Lexington or lone.
"Speed is an essential part of the
program," said Mr. Glasgow, "due to
the various conditions that must be
met before actual construction can
begin."
He emphasized that there is no
assurance that sacks may be had for
handling the oncoming crop, nor
either is there any assurance that
any considerable amount of grain
now in storage will be moved in
time to clear needed space.
SCOUTS START ON
OLD PAPER DRIVE
Collection of used paper to help
promote the war effort was started
in Heppner last evening by Troop
61 Boy Scouts, acting on request of
the county defense committee.
A thorough and systematic can
vass will be made and a regular
monthly collection program fol
lowed from homes of the city.
Business houses, who accumulate
a larger supply of the paper will be
contacted weekly, said Martin Clark,
scoutmaster.
In carrying out the paper drive
and seeing that the paper is proper
ly handled, a paper baler that saw
serivce in the last such war effort
has been impressed into service. The
baler, in the possession of E. R. Hus
ton, has been placed at the disposal
of the scouts.
Mr. Clark urged everyone to help
by having the used paper ready for
the boys when they call for it.
Rural homes having waste paper
are also asked to save it and if pos
sible bring it in and leave it in front
of the county fair pavilion.
ROBERTSON-CHASE
A wedding of interest to Morrow
county people occurred February 11
at Walla Walla, when Ben Robert
son of Hermiston and Miss Frances
Chase' of Portland were married at
the home of the Methodist minister.
Mr. and Mrs. Bud Ayers of Pendle
ton were the only attendants. Mr.
Robertson was for several years an
employe at Ferguson Motor com
pany and is now employed at the
ordnance depot at Hermiston. The
newlyweds will make their home in
Hermiston for a short while, then
expect to go to southern New Mex
ico on a defense job.
Food sale by Methodist ladies,
Sat., Feb. 28, Case Furn., 10:30 a. m.
Intensified Scrap
Campaign Starts
To Feed Smelters
Interior Warehouse
to Clear Supplies
From South County
All scrap iron is needed now if
our smelters are to keep operating
and supplying our factories with
materials for war implements and
farm machinery, states C. D. Con
rad, county agent, in reporting the
latest developments on the scrap
iron campaign being organized by
the Morrow County War board.
The war board has been informed
that a serious shortage of scrap is
threatening to hamper U. S. arma
ment production and some smaller
smelters have already been forced
to close down for lack of scrap ma
terial. Scrap iron in the southern part
of Morrow county will be assembl
ed at the Interior Warehouse in
Heppner. Farmers who can bring
their scrap in will be paid $6.85 a
ton which is in line with the mini
mum prices set by the government.
Payment for scrap will be made by
Cornett Green when the scrap is
delivered at the warehouse.
Anyon having scrap iron who
cannot bring it in or who does not
wish to bother about hauling it
should leave word at the county
agent's office or with the high school
and the FFA boys wll pick it up.
Proceeds from scrap turned over
to the FFA boys will go to the local
FFA chapter.
All scrap other than sheet iron is
acceptable and the board wishes to
point out that many- homes in town
will find appreciable amounts of
scrap which should be turned in.
Complacency has caused us an
unmeasurable amount of loss in this
war and it is time for all of us to
cast off our complacent attitude if
we have one and get busy on the
things that are needed to win this
war, said Conrad, adding, one of
them right now is the essembling of
all scrap iron in the U. S.
The war board urges everyone to
get behind this drive and turn in
all scrap except that needed on the
farm for repair purposes.
Plans are being worked on for the
territory farther down Willow creek,
around lone and at Boardman and
Irrigon.
Basketball Squad to
Be Chamber Guests
Heppner high school's league
leading Mustang basketeers, and
coach Lyle Swenson will be honored
guests at the next regular meeting
of Heppner chamber of commerce.
The invitation was extended by di
rectors meeting in the office of F. W.
Turner right after enjoying the Ep
iscopal Shrove Tuesday hot cake and
sausage luncheon that noon.
The next meeting, March 3, will
be a joint meeting of members and
wives in the basement of the Chris
tian church at 6:30 in the evening.
C. J. D. Bauman and E. H. Miller
are in charge of program.
President Mahonoy asked for co
operation and ideas in outlining a
program for the year. The subject
of Rodeo was discussed and mem
bers urged to attend a meeting of
the Rodeo association that evening.
The defense program was explained
by C. J. D. Bauman.
LIONS OPPOSE PENSIONS
Believing the present all-out war
effort to be no time for congress
men to vote themselves pensions,
the Lions at their Monday meeting
voted in favor of a resolution spon
sored by Lions in Spokane, asking
that the pension act be repealed.
NEW BOOKS AT LIBRARY
"Dragon Seed" by Pearl S. Buck,
"Soap Behind the Ears" by Cor
nelia Otis Skinner and "Windswept"
by Mary Ellen Chase are new books
placed on the Heppner Public li
brary shelves this week.
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