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4 Heppner Gazette Times, October 1, 1942 Heppner Gazette Times THE HEPPNER GAZETTE Established March 30. 1883 THE HEPPNER TIMES Established November 18, 1897 CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15, 1912 Published Every Thursday by CRAWFORD PUBLISHING COMPANY and entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as second-class matter. O. G. CRAWFORD, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $2.50 Two Years ; 4.50 Three Years - 6.00 Six Months 1.25 Three Months 65 Single Copies 05 To Hold Meetings in Heppner PINE CITY NEWS A BAD PENNY There is an old saying that has been applied to the new publishers of the Gazette Times this week with more or less regularity until we are wondering if there might be a grain of truth in it "a bad penny always returns". We have returned sevehal times since first taking leave of here in 1916 but never to stay for long. Our coming usually was in response to an emergensy in volving a few weeks or a few months and then we returned home to take up former pursuits. This time it is, different. It might be said that we still are answering an emergency call, for printers are get ting scarcer every day and the Gazette Times had difficulty the past month in keeping in circulation, but if we can give the people the kind of a paper they want and can count on the right a mount of cooperation necessary to ' make that kind of a paper, we will be here for a long, long time.'' A lot of water has run under the bridge, spilled over the dam or gone elsewhere since the writer as a youth set his first line bf type at the old Hepp ner Times office on upper Main street in-1901. The modern composing ma chine, the linotype, was not thought of then as, a possibility in the average country newspaper printery; the cyl inder press was operated by hand, and the job press was a footpower set-up. Over at the Gazette office, which was two doors farther south, composition was by hand but a steam boiler fur nished motive power for the presses as well as providing heat for the build ing. All this was abandoned in favor of a gasoline motor when the late Fred Warnock moved the Gazette office to May street where, in 1910 the plant passed into the hands of Vawter Craw ford. In the meantime, the Times was partially modernized with the addition of gasoline motive power and the in stallation of a semi-modern composing machine, the Simplex. With the acqui sition of the Times in 1912, and the con solidation of the two plants, the Gazette-Times was published in the Times building, where, in 1914, the first lino type installed in Morrow county was set up and the Gazette Times, was on its way to becoming a modern, up-to-date printing establishment. In 1919, after the plant had been moved to its present location, another step was made with the insallation of a new modern book and news press, and a few years later the original linotype was supplanted by a late model, multi ple magazine machine, placing the Ga zette Times in the front rank with country newspapers of the state. Few shops in Oregon outrank this plant in equipment, particularly towns the size of Heppner, and it is with pardonable pride that we boast a little in taking- ssS A Willie White, state evangelist for the "99" men's movement in Giegon, will open a month's evangel istic services Sunday morning at the Church of Christ. Meetings will be held each night except Mondays from Oct. 4 to Nov. 1. Rev. White is no stranger to Heppner audiences, having conducted a three-night series here last spring. In addition to his evangelistic work, he conducted a series of boys' summer camps during the summer, one of them attended by a group of six Heppner boys. over publication and operation of a business that has served this section for upwards of 60 years. It will be the purpose of the new owners to carry on and make the Gazette-Times a worthy representative and faithful servant of the county. So long as that policy prevails we are sure that the good people of this solid com munity will show their appreciation by properly supporting the paper, and pat ronizing the printery. To our many friends we extend greetings, and to the many new people we extend a cordial invitation to come in and get acquainted. o THEY DESERVE CREDIT A word in appreciation of the efforts of those who carried on at the Gazette Times office during the month of Sep tember seems appropriate. There is enough work, trials and tribulations for experienced newspaper people in the everyday processes of journalism and printing to make one old before his time, and fcr those not practiced in caring for a newspaper shop to have the entire responsibility thrust upon them like a bolt out of the blue is some what of a jolt. To the everlasting credit of Cora and Lera (we're writing in family terms now) they had no intention of turning the key in the door. They didn't even fold their arms, wring their hands or sigh, but went to work. It likewise was a busy time for Jesse Turner, who, aside from rustling printers to keep the paper publishing, learned some of the inside tricks of putting a paper to gether. For that matter, the sympa thetic understanding of most of the subscribers is worthy of mention, as well as others who helped carry on. -o- By BERNICS W ATTENBURGER Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Myers spent Friday in The IJalles on a business trip. i Dorothy and Jean Wigglesworth of Echo spent the week-end with the Wattenburger children while their parents spent a few days in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Ayers and Mr. and Mrs. Burl Wattenburger attended a dance in Lexington Sat urday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Finch and daughter Patty were dinner guests ot the E. B. Wattenburger home Sunday evening. Latep in the eve ning Mr. and Mrs. Garnet Aber crombie and family joined them. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wattenburger sent Sunday and Monday in Pasco. Mr. and Mrs. J03 Farley and Ma rie Beebe visited with Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wattenburger Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Moore and sons called Thursday evening at the E. B. Wattenburger home. Pine City club ladies will meet Thursday for an all-day club meet ing. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Finch spent Saturday evening in Heppner. If you want a good trailer to bring your bucks home in SEE US OR TELEPHONE 822 McCLINTOCK'S WELDING & KEPAIil SHOP O. M. YEAGER CONTRACTOR & BUILDER All kinds of carpenter work Country work especially "iiiari ill Mifin-TiiTiTfin f .iiTru-""-"""h UNt-WAi CLEANING SERVICE Wedncsday-Thursday-Friday HEPPNER CLEANERS When Eating in The Dalles REMEMBER JEFF'S CAFE GEORGE COOK, Prop. x- i , ' i DR. STRAM DON'T WAIT For School to Start Send your child in for an eye check-up before the back -to-school rush be gins. PRICES REASONABLE No Charge for Examination Satisfaction Guaranteed STRAM OPTICAL CO. 225 S. Main St Pendleton 1 Professional Directory Dr. W. H. Rockwell Naturopathic Physician & Surgeon Gilman Bldg. Office hours: 1 p. m. to 7:30 p. m. Exam free Ph. 522 Heppner, Or. Phelps Funeral Home Licensed Funeral Directors Phone 1332 Heppner, Ore. J. O. Turner ATTORNEY AT LAW Phone 173 Hotel Heppner Building HEPPNER, ORE. A. D. McMurdo, M. D. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Trained Nurs Assistant Office In Masonic Building Heppner, Oregon Heppner Abstract Co. J. LOG IE RICHARDSON. Mgr. SATES SEASONABLE Roberts Building Heppner, Ore. W. Mahoney ATTORNEY AT LAW GENERAL INSTTBANCE Heppner Hotel Building Willow St. Entrance J. O. Peterson Latest Jewelry and Gift Goods Watched . Clocks Diamonds Expert Watch and Jewelry Repairing Heppner, Oregon t NEW AUTO POLICY Bodily Injury & Property Damage Class A $13.G0 Class D ?17.(W See us before financing your next automobile. F. W. TURNER & CO. Heppner City Council Meets First Monday Each Month Citizens having matters for dis cussion, please bring before the Council J. O. TURNER, Mayor Dr. L. D. Tibbies OSTEOPATHIC Physician ft Surgeon FIRST NATIONAL BANK BLDG. Rec. Phone 1182 Office Phone 492 HEPPNER, OREGON Jos. J. Nys ATTORNEY AT LAW Peters Building, Wlllow Street Heppner. Oregon Morrow County Abstract fir Title Co. INC. ABSTRACTS OP TITLE TITLE INSUBANCE Office In New Peters Building M. L, CASE G. E. NIKANDER Directors of Funerals 882 Phone 262