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.
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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.
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