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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 3, 1942)
ft "u O f : ra ca in o r o 3 .-t O H Q 1- : : : c U L o "Sir fl Our Men In Se rvice Mrs. Chester Brown has received word that her son, Chester Chris tian son, has been promoted from lieutenant to captain in the ma rines. Harry ODonnell, son of Mrs. and Mrs. H. ODonnell, writes that he is now attending gunnery school at the navy base at San Diego where he is stationed. He states that he is enjoying the work a lot. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Aiken have received word that their son, Joe who is with the Army Air Corps, has landed safely on foreign soil. Henry Stott has been notified that his son, Henry, has been hospital ized in Ireland for a slight operation. He is with the Army. Dean Gillman, of the Marine Corps, won second place recently in target shooting at his base in San Diego. . Joe Galeese, who was here re cently on a few ' days' leave, has been promoted to rank of sergeant. Vestor Dallas "Stub" Ham, who is with the Army at Little Rock, Ark., will be joined there this month by Miss Lorraine Bothwell, who left here Sunday. They plan to be married there. Woodhouse Tucker of Stanfield, who is stationed at Victorville, Cal fiornia, was married on August 22 in Payette, Idaho, to Miss Edith Brown of Portland. John Bucknum, son of William Bucknum, is now serving as direc tor of the USO club at Christobal in the Canal Zone. Bucknum re ceived his early training in Oregon at Mt. Angel Preparatory School and Mt. Angel College. His first job was as a teacher at St. Mary's igh School, Phoenix, Ariz., where he taught public speaking and . dram atics. He was also athletic instruc tor and football coach, and later held the same positions at St. Paul Union High, St. Paul, Ore. Besides his teaching duties, Mr. Bucknum was faculty advisor in both schools to various student or ganiaztions, and business manager of some of the teams. During his stay in Phoenix he acted as news commentator for radio station KPHO, and has always taken a leading part in public speaking and journalism when the opportunity offfered. Clarence W. Hayes, son of Mr and Mrs. Glenn Hayes, who , has been living in Corvallis with his wife and daughter, Janis, left this week for San Diego, Calfornia, where he will serve with the Ma rine Corps reserve. Mrs. Hayes and Janis will join him later. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Morgan of Los Angeles , California, arrived here Monday evening for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Bill Morgan. Milton has been employed at the Douglas Aircraft company, but has left to join the Navy. Jack Merrill left Sunday from Pendleton ,to start his service in the Navy. From there he expected to go to San Diego. y FRANK NCKERSON INJURED Frank Nickerson dislocated his right shoulder and suffered bruises when the horse he was leading became frightened and pushed him , against a fence. The accident took place about half a mile from the Anson Wright place. A Heppner doctor treated him and he return ed to his home. GOES TO GRANTS PASS John Wightman, accompanied by his daughter, Mrs. Claude Graham, drove to Grants Pass Friday, re turning on Monday. They stopped in Bend for lunch and while there they saw Orville Smith, who is spending the week there on busi ness. - Mrs. O. W. Bayless returned Tuesday evening from Portland where she had been visiting for a lew days. mKumwi wax Volume 59, Number 23 Morrow County Men Are Inducted Into Armed Forces Selectees of Morrow county local board who reported for induction on August 26th and were accepted for service in the Army are as fol lows:, Conrad B. Hanson, Charlie J. Marshall, Grattan L. Hoffmann, Ivan N. Tunison, William B. Crum, Charles D. Botts, James F. Bailey, Lawrence E. Matteson, Cecil C. oodwin, Robert E. Bruce, Hiram E. Vinson, Ray M. Schenck. Ray Schenck was appointed leader of the group for the trip to the induc tion station and he was made ac ing corporal of he group that re turned home on furlough before re porting for active service. Lyle Whealy, a registrant of Morrow county local board, has en listed in the U. S. Navy. Local People Attend Bond Sales Dinner Mr. and Mrs. J. 0. Turner and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth House were among those from Heppner who at tended the bond sales dinner held last Monday evening in Pendleton at the Junior High School gymnas ium. Mr. House says that the thing that impressed him about the main speech of the evening., deliver -ed by U. S. Supreme Court Justice Wm. O. Douglas, was his declara tion that, altho many were say ing Ave " Americans were kidding ourselves, and were not awake to the situation, he felt we really were and proceeded to prove his point. He was introduced by Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the Oregonian, . who was first introduced by Guy John son, bond drive chairman of Uma tilla county. Very good music was provided by two negro boys from the airbase 'who seng, and Mrs. Deye, wife of the band leader of the school, who also sang. County Schools To Open September 14 At a special meeting of the board of education of Heppner school dis trict No. 1 of Heppner, held Friday evening at the Heppner high school, it was decided by the board to postpone the opening of school for another week. Therefore, the open ing of school will be Monday, Sep tember 14th, instead of the date an nounced in the paper last week. The board made this decision be cause of the fact that the rain and cold mornings will hinder the completion of harvest throughout the county, and the farmers need the students' help. LIONS CLUB MEETS A meeting of the Lions Club was held Monday noon at the Lucas Place. Eight members were pre sent 'for the luncheon and the business meeting which followed, conducted by Charles Barlow, pres ident. It was voted to give $2.50 to the Red Cross for soldier kits. The meeting for he following Mon day was cancelled. Lester E. Meadows, who was born and lived in Heppner for years, but has made his home in California for many past years, passed away on June 12 in Oak land, California. He was a brother of Mrs. Lorena Meadows Boyd, also of Oakland. Mrs. Effie Dunlap of Salem visit ed recently at the home of Mrs. Ray Drake. Mrs. Drake and Claud ine accompanied her as far as Port land, where they visited the new baby son of Lieut. Donald Drake, who is now stationed in Alaska. Neighborhood Group To Form Organization To Combat Inflation Every family in Morrow county will soon be contacted and given in formation on the national inflation t control program if the Neighborhood Leader organization now being or ganized functions as it is expected to. . Explaining the background, meth ods and purposes of the program to control the cost of living and pre vent inflation is the leaders' first job. . A man and woman leader have been appointed for every neighbor- hood in Morrow county and train ing meetings for the leaders are now under way. Leaders at Heppner met at the county agent's office Tuesday evening,' lone leaders met in the Legion hall last night and the Lexington leaders will meet tonight a 8:30 p. m. in he high school. The neighborhood leader plan is the outgrowth of a request issued to the extension service to organize all farm and rural people so that every family can be contacted in the shortest possible time. The major purpose of the plan is to provide a means by which every rural family can be reached promptly with educational informa tion vital to "the war effort and to assist them in maintaining the farm production plant so that it may make the needed contribution to win the war. Its purpose also is to as sist farm and rural families through neighborhood cooperation to over - come some of the deficiencies which.., are now apparent. ; C, D. Conrad, who is now busy getting the plan into operation in this county, states that the major County Over Top In Bond Quota Morrow county exceeded its Aug ust quota for bond sales. The quota was set at $27,800, and the total sales for the county last month were $32,942.50, according to P. W. Ma honey, chairman of the bond com- -mittee. One well known Morrow county farmer, who already had bought the yearly limit of Series E bonds, which is $5,000, also purchased this month a $5,000 F bond. Others have purchased a number of $1,000 and $1,500 bonds. The local bond com mittee feels that the farmers of this county who have had bumper crops should make heavy purchases the next few months and lay aside a nest egg for the years in which the crops are apt to be short. Swimming Pool Closed In Heppner A total of 3,769 swims was enjoy ed by men, women and children in the three months Heppner's fine municipal pool was open. On June 8, Harold Buhman, as official Red Cross life saver, opened the pool, and continued its care until August 16, when he left for his new home at Lakeview. Ray Schenck then took its charge until the pool was closed on August 26. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Bisbeen, with their daughter and son, Katherine and Orrin, left Wednesday morn ing for Diamond Lake, where they will be some fishing. From there Orrin will return to his home in San Francisco, and Katherine to her work in Oregon City. The Eastern Star Social Club will be held Saturday, Sept. 5, at the Masonic Hall dining room, with Mrs. 0. W. Bayless and Mrs. W. O. Dix as hostesses. The party will be a dessert bridge starting at 2 p. m. and all Eastern Star members are invited. Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, September 3, 1942 o " work of the leaders as now con ceivecLamong other things, will in clude such phases as what rural families can do to assist in controll ing inflation, farm transportation, farm labor, salvage, rural fire con trol, and rationing. He adds that as time goes on, it may be that this neighborhood lead er system will provide the only ef fective means of reaching a high percentage of rural people. The plan being followed is being organized in every county in the U. S. and was first submitted to the County Agricultural Planning Com mittees for their approval. The committees in turn, divided the counties into communities and ap pointed a man and woman leader for each community. At a meeting of all community leaders last month, the communities were divided into neighborhoods and a man and woman leader ap pointed for each. Quota Given By Rationing Board The local board has received the tire quota for this month for Mor row county. A warning has also been issued by the tire commission that the board must' be prepared for a downward trend in the month ly quotas. Passenger and Motorcycle New Tires 4 Class B Grade 2 18 (This is a class for defense workers) Recaps ..:....75 New Tubes 51 r Truck, Bus, Tractor, Etc. , New tires .' 35 Recaps ' 58 New Tubes 59 New bicycles 2 New cars 2 Local Men Collect Rubber for Shipping A number of Heppner men donat ed their time last Thursday after noon and evening to loading the scrap rubber collected recently on a truck and transporting it to the depot for shipment. Among them were B. C. Pinckney, who organized the mon, Howard Bryant, Jack Van Winkle, Frank Turner, Burl Coxen, Lee Sprinkle, Scott Furlong, Ed ward Rice, Barney Doherty, Phil Mahoney, Jimmy Driscoll, Bud Hanlon, Elton Robinson, L. D. Tib bies, Bob Pinckney, John Skuseski. Roy McAllister, D H. Jones, Jr., Tom Wells, Stephen Thompson, Luke Bibby, Alec Lindsey and Logie Richardson. Prospects Still Bright For Big Rook Class Oregon State College With high schopl applications higher than last year and those from transfer stu dents slightly lower, total admis sions for the fall term here are run ning almost exactly the same as a year ago, according to a mid-summer report from Registrar E. B. Lemon. Acceptance midway in Aug ust showed the total from high schools 3 per cent above the same date a year ago. Little information can be had on return of old students, though re servations at women's dormitories and cooperative houses are practic ally the same as last year. A few vacancies remain in the coopera tives where the girls, by doing most of their ow nwork, cut living ex penses drastically. Young People of Heppner Receive Camp Honors The Church of Christ held a spe cial service last Sunday evening in which a number of young people were given special honor for hav ing completed a required cturse of study in their summer camps. During July three young people attended Ben Springs Christian Service Camp south of Mt. Hood on the Wapinitia cut-off, and they were awarded their certificates at this service. - The Heppner group were Loma Mae Jones, Betty Jepsen and Joe Hughes. Loma Mae brought home the honors by receiving the full scholarship award to next year's camp for being the best second year student. Six boys who attended boys' camp at Anthony Lake just last week were also honored. There were a total of thirty -three boys in this camp and of the thirty three, sixteen made their decisions for Christ and sixteen said that they had prayed for the first time in public. Again our group brought home the honors when Tom Hughes was given honorable mention as be.-t boy in camp. The decisions were so close that Bobby Bennett also was considered for that honor. Oth ers who attended boys' camp were Junior Hughes, Don Rippiee, Her val Pettyjohn and Bobby Jepsen. As a beautiful climax to this service five of the young reople were baptized into Christ. Fine Exhibits In 4-H Garden Fair Good quality vegetables of many , varieties can be grown in Morrow county was evidenced by the ex-, hibit of 4-H club garden produce on display in Heppner last Satur day. , Club , members from Irrigon, Boardman, Lexington and Hardman exhibited in the first 4-H club gar den fair to be held in Heppner. Many club members, however, were away working and were un able to exhibit. Fourteen members of the twenty-six enrolled in the county furnished vegetables for the exhibit. Audrey Majeske, of Lexington, was awarded a 1943 summer school scholarship lor having the best pro ject exhibit. The Lexington Garden club was awarded $10 in defense stamps for the community victory garden ex hibit. The Lexington club was the only club competing in this division but their exhhit wheh included a large variety of garden produce was; very worthy of the award. CROPS CONTROL WEEDS Klamath Falls Successful control of such perennial weeds as whitetop has been obtained with fall-planted smother crops here, reports C.A. Hen derson, county agent. Considerable land is being prepared by owners for September planting with rye and peas, following seasonal summer fal low. Heavy seedins gave the best re sult last year, with rye used at the rate of 80 to 100 pounds per acre, and peas at 90 to 130 pounds, seeded together. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Isom and dau ghter drove to Pendleton last Fri day where they were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Struve. On Sunday Mr? Isom drove to Eugene, where he attended the funeral of his bro ther, T. C. Isom, who passed away there last Wednesday. He is a cousin of Charles B. Cox, and El bert and Charles Cox og this city, Mr. Isom returned Monday even ing to Pendleton, where Harriet was operated on the following morning for removal of tonsils and adenoids. They returned to Hepp ner on Tuesday morning. CO o t