Norman Nelson With
Navy on Pacific Isle
MJr. and Mrs. A .H. Nelson of Lex
ington have received a letter from
their son, Norman Nelson, with a
naval construction battalion which
shows him to be located on an island
"somewhere in the Pacific." It fol
lows: Dear Folks:
I received my first mail today af
ter having gone two months without
any. There were nine letters and
three bunches of papers, the Gazette
Times and the Grange Bulletin.
Thanks a lot for sending them.
I am on an island in the Pacific
ocean and that is about all I can say.
Certainly have seen a lot of in
teresting sights which I would never
have seen if I had stayed in the
States. It seems almost like a dream.
I have been doing a number of dif
ferent kinds of work since I have
been here but have a good job now
that I like.
We certainly get all the bananas,
cocoanuts, tangerines, etc., that we
can eat. The natives often give us
offerings of fruit. At one time we
had seven bunches of bananas hang
ing near our tent. Some times the
natives' pigs come around and eat
the lower ends of them.
I broke a rib on my left side, so
am taking it easy for a few days.
This morning one of my tent mates
and myself decided to go for a walk,
and on the way we stopped in to.
see a native friend of his.
This friend showed us his banana
and pineapple farm and gave us a
stalk of bananas, and took us boat
ing in his outrigger on a beautiful
inland lagoon which of course is
salt, but it looks like a lake. My
mate and his friend went in swim
ming but I couldn't on account of
my ribs, but I had a lot of fun pad
dling the outrigger. Oh yes, I must
tell you that the native friend car
ried the bananas back to our camp
for us, which was about a mile and
a half. We gave him little presents
such as we had. They don't like to
take presents from their friends, but
otherwise they sure know how to.
charge, one dollar being about the
lowest price for anything. '
A number of the fellows would
like to go back to Oregon with me
after seeing my pictures, but I
think if we ever get back they will
head straight for home.
Was just looking over the bulletin
board and saw my name. There was
a paper for me. It was an East Ore
gonian which you had mailed to
Norfolk. Was April 9 copy, but was
quite interesting, especially Jose
phine Mahoney's column.
Well I guess I had better sign off
for this time. Would like to hear
from all of you and receive some
pictures. How about trying out the
new camera, Mom? I would like to
take some pictures here but of
course I can't.
Hope you had enough moisture to
finish up the crop, and I hope Dad
and Fred don't find the combine in
too bad condition after the big crop
last year and my separator tending.
Tell the folks around hello for me.
Your son,
NORMAN.
Food for War Industry
Workers Held Vital
Oregon State College While Ore
gon has made outstanding progress
in its work in promoting nutrition
for defense, the rapid growth in war
time industries, particularly in Port
land, presents a further challenge
to those interested in this field, Dr.
Helen Mitchell of Washington, D.
C, told members of the state com
mittee on nutrition for defense at a
meeting held the last week in July.
The meeting was called hurriedly
by Dean Ava B. Milam, state chair
man, upon receiving word that Dr.
Mitchell, who heads the national
program as chief nutritionist in the
Federal Security agency, would be
in the state with Miss Rae Rusell,
regional nutritionist from San Fran
cisco. Dr. Mitchell outlined the important
place that nutrition is taking in
keeping up a high level of wartime
industrial production. Encourage
men of better home lunches for
workers, better selection of cafeteria
food by workers, and better cooper
ation of management in affording
convenient and high quality food
service add materially to the effi
ciency of a workman, explained Dr.
Circus on Its Way to
Ease Tension of Times
Bringing an interlude of joy and
cheer to relieve the tension of trou
blous times, Russell Bros.' Great 3
Ring Circus, one of America's larg
est, will exhibit at Heppner Monday,
August 17, giving an afternoon per
formance only on the Cummings lot
opposite the grain warehouses on
Riverside avenue.
Russell Bros., highly popular for
the last decade in the East and Mid
dle West, launched its 1942 tour to
the acclaim of tremendous crowds
in Los Angeles and Hollywood, and
plans to visit all the leading cities
of the Western states during the
current season.
Among the stellar features on the
all-new star-spangled program are
Winston's Equestrian Sea Lions
which perform incredible feats of
balance while riding horseback,
Jorgen M. Christiansen's marvelous
South American Criollo horses, the
skyrocketing Escalantes, the Sensa
tional DeWaynes, the Four Aceva
dos, the Aerial Alexandros, the Bell
Thazer Troupe, the Grace Orton
Trio, the Clarkonians, and many oth
er top-rank aerial, acrobatic and
arenic artists.
Additional trained animal features
include performing elephants, out
standing high school dancing horses,
cunning military ponies, White's
leaping Greyhounds, and the world's
only troupe of trained Great Dane
dogs.
The performance opens with a
great patriotic spectacle, "United for
Victory." A special attraction in the
menagerie is Congo, a gargantuan
LOCAL ITEMS ...
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Bededeard and
two children of lone, Wash., and
Charles Russell of Spokane, who is
Mrs. Bededeard's father, were vis
itors of Rev. and Mrs. Sterl D.
Spiesz. Mr. Bededeard and Mrs.
Spiesz went to grade school together
in Spokane for several years. They
were on their way to visit at Prine
ville and California before return
ing to lone.
' Mrs. Fred Rhode from Alabama,
sister of Mrs. George Sanders, ar
rived Tuesday for a visit. Mrs. San
ders met her at Arlington. She has
been visiting in Oregon for some
time at Myrtle Point and coast
points.
Mrs. Edward Green departed Tu
esday for her home at Portland af
ter a week's visit with her mother,
Mrs. Agnes Curran. B. R. Patterson
accompanied her to the city for a
few days' visit.
Lloyd Segley, Chevrolet dealer of
Ashland was a business visitor here
Monday. He is the son-in-law of
Mrs. O. G. Boyd of Caldwell, Idaho,
former Heppner resident.
Larry Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Walter E. Moore of Pendleton, for
merly of this city recently enlisted
in the army air corps, according to
announcement in the daily press.
Gus Williamson was looking up
Heppner friends Saturday while on
leave from his work as a guard at
Umatilla ordnance depot.
Creed Owens left the end of the
week for Hay, Wash., to visit his
daughter, Mr. Fred Stark, and fam
ily. '
Mitchell.
More emphasis on the importance
of maximum food preservation by
individual families this summer was
urged at the state meeting. Local
sugar rationing officials can help
greatly by encouraging maximum
fruit preservation, it was brought
out.
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NOTICE
TO THE PEOPLE OF HEPPNER
Having been reclassified into class 1-A, it becomes necessary
for me to sell Dickson's Variety Store in Heppner. Anyone
interested in purchasing same, please inquire at the store.
Gilbert C. Dickson
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A PAIR OF JESTERS
ape weighing upwards of 250 pounds.
Doors open at 1 p.m. to allow
time for the wild animal displays
and horse fair in the menagerie be
fore the' start of the big show at 2
o'clock.
HARDMAN NEWS
House on Greener
Land, Hardman, Burns
By ELSA M. LEATHERS
The Hayden house, on the prop
erty that William Greener purchas
ed last year from Mrs. Maud Hay
den, burned down one day this week.
The contractor for hauling logs, Van
Hubbard and family, lived in the
house and lost all their household
and personal belongings. Mrs. Hub
bard was in Walla Walla with a
small son in the hospital with mas
toid trouble at the time of the fire.
Mr. Greener was near by in a field
but the house burned so fast noth
ing could be saved.
Raymond Pettyjohn has been in
this community cutting weeds for
the county. Weeds on the .J. B. Ad
ams, O. H. Leathers and Guy Cha
pin places will be cut.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Robinson
and daughter Doris, and Mrs. Clar
ence Rogers, all of Portland, visited
here over Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Dallas McDaniel and
Joe Mahon went to Pendleton this
week to visit an eye specialist.
Mrs. Edna Sizemore of Seattle
has been visiting the last two weeks
with Mrs. Fred Reed. They are
school girl friends. She will return
home to Seattle this week.
Miss Maxene McDaniel spent the
week end at her home from the
Lawrence Jones ranch where si e
works.
Mrs. Marvin Brannon and brother
Donald Morton left Sunday evening
for Portland where she will visit
her parents a month before going
to Mt. Vernon to teach school.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam McDaniel spent
Saturday in Heppner visiting with
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. McDonald.
Carey Hastings is suffering from
a very severe attack of the flu. He
was taken to Heppner to a doctor
Saturday evening.
Claude Hastings is visiting this
week end at home from Yakima,
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where he is stationed in the army.
Everett Hadley is home from Kin
zua for a few days. He was work
ing in the factory that burned this
week,
Mrs. Jessie Lovgren and family
and Miss Betty Lovgren visited in
Hardman over Sunday and visited
Ed McDaniel at the John Day forest
station at Parkers Mill.
Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Adams and
family of Kinzua visited over the
week end with friends and rela
tives.
Mrs. Leon Chapin is visiting for
two weeks in La Grande with her
father, Theodore Byers, and grand
mother, Mrs. Jennie Byers.
Mrs. Ray Wright entertained Sun
day, July 26, in honor of Mrs. Mary
Coats, Mary Wright and Lois Keys.
Fourteen persons were present.
Grandma Coats was 87 years old
July 28.
Miss Jean Leathers returned home
from Portland and the coast where
she had visited the last six weeks.
Miss Josephine Case returned home
with her, and is visiting her aunt,
Mrs. C. E. Leathers.
Mrs. B. H. Bleakman and son
Leslie and Mrs. Owen Leathers spent
Monday and Tuesday of last week
in Pendleton. Mrs. Bleakman was
having dental work done, while Mrs.
Leathers and Leslie Bleakman were
consulting an optician. They vis
ited at the Marion Saling home in
Pendleton.
Miss Ollie Hastings is. visiting this
week from Kinzua, with Miss Alene
Inskeep.
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Hams moved
home Sunday from Kinzua where
he will help through haying and har
vest for his father, Jim Hams.
Glen Farrens, who was kicked by
a horse, on the leg last week, is
slowly improving.
Mrs. Foster Collins returned horn,
from Klamath Falls where she has
been doctoring for the last six weeks.
Her brother, Ray Steers, underwent
a serious operation while there. He
is reported to be on the way to
recovery again.
G. W. Booher, post office inspec
tor of Yakima, Wn., called at Hard
man Friday evening, July 31, and
installed Elsa M. Leathers acting
as Mrs. Iris M. Brannon, successor
to the postmistress-ship.
Mrs. Mabel Wade of Cheyenne,
Wyoming, visited her niece, Mrs.
Neal Knighten, here the past week,
and also accompanied Mrs. Knighten
on the trip to Baker, Vale and other
eastern Oregon towns, with the ce
real. Delbert Osborne injured his back
and neck while loading lumber and
was not on the lumber truck for
a day or two.
Mrs. George Dean and daughter
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A
LUNCHEON
PLATE
That Hits the Spot
o
Our special hot weather
plate is tempting to look
at rousing to appetite!
Full-flavored cold meats,
extra-good potato salad
it' a feast! Try it today.
Also a variety of fresh
fruits and vegetables, in
cluding good old-fashioned
strawberry shortcake!
ELKHORN
RESTAURANT
Ed Chinn, Prop.
Leona returned from Boise, Idaho,
where they have been visiting a bro
ther of Mrs. Dean, who was home
on furlough.
Dewey Britt, Buster Bleakman
and Walt Sibrel all turned out to
help Bill Greener haul hay Sunday.
Mrs. Greener took the dinner to the
men and had a picnic dinner under
the pines. Those present were Mai
da Britt, Ella Bleakman, Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Stewart, a niece of
Mrs. Britt.
The mill ladies, Mrs. Minnie Mc
Ferrin, Ethel Robinson, Debbie Mc
Daniel, Ella Bleakman, Jean Leath
ers, Josephine Case, Maxene Mc
Daniel, all made a quilt for the Van
Hubbards, whose house burned.
Mr. and Mrs. Al Lovgren, Minnie
McFerrin, Debbie McDaniel and
Frances and Carl Leathers all went
huckleberrying to Happy Jack, Tu
esday, when the mill wasn't oper
ating. Ordnance Depot
Wants More Workers
Mien are urgently needed for vital
war work at the Umatilla ordnance
depot, Hermiston. All who qualify
will be given appointments for the
duration of the war and six months
thereafter. The lowest these jobs pay
is $5.92 a day, with time and a half
for overtime. The work will be
steady, and the pay totals over $160
a month for a six day week and
$200 a month for a seven day week.
The seven day week is general at
the present time.
Barrack and mess halls for single
workers have been provided at the
depot. The rate of pay was increas
ed approximately twenty per cent
on July 16. Workers have migrated
from as far away as Minnesota, and
large numbers have come from
Washington, Idaho and Montana, but
there is still an acute need for men.
To be eligible, applicants must be
American citizens, over 18 years of
age, weigh at least 130 pounds, and
have no serious physical disabilities.
All those who are interested in
working in this vital war establish
ment should inquire at the nearest
office of the United States Employ
ment service where full information
is available.
STAR Reporter
FRIDAY-SATURDAY
Young America
Hit the 4-H trail with Jane Withers!
Jane's happiest hit, dedicated to the
4-H Army of young citizens recruit
ed from the farmlands of the nation,
pledged to help their club, their
community, their Uncle Sam!
pius
South of Santa Fe
Roy Rogers, Gabby Hayes, Sons
of the Pioneers
Western musical with comedy.
SUNDAY-MONDAY
The Male Animal
Henry Fonda, Olivia dcllavilland,
Joan Leslie, Jack Carson,
Eugene Pallette
He's a college professorbut in a
class by himself with the gals. From
the play that had a laugh for every
light on Broadway. See it it will do
your heart good!
TUESDAY
Adults 25c
Bargain Night
Children 10c
The Girl from Alaska
Jean Parker, Ray Middle ton,
Jerome Cowan
A Northern outdoor adventuie st:ry
with lots of thrills and action.
WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY
Wild Bill Hickock
Rides
Constance Bennett, Bruce Cabot,
Warren William
There's a double-barrelled load of
thrills in this mighty drama of the
wide open spaces.