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u r ,-i i - t. ... t Wi Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, October 15, 1942 Volume 59, Number 29 4-H Club Fair To Open Here Saturday A. M. Achievement Day and Victory Exhibits on Program Saturday will be fair day in Hep pner when 4-H clubs of the county gather here with exhibits of their livestock and handwork of the past year. While operated under the usual rules of former fairs, this year's exhibit has been termed the 4-H club Achievement Day and Victory Exhibit, keeping in line with events of the period. ' necessity for every able-bodied Due to shortage of labor and the youth to help with harvesting op erations over the county, it is ex pected the exhibits will fall a little short of previous seasons. This will be noticeable in live stock exhib its, according to County Agent C. D. Conrad, who states that indica tions are that sheep will comprise the main showing in that division. Conrad was tryng to induce some boys to bring in calves and steers but up to a late hour had made no report. Exhibits will open at 10 a. m. Saturday, with livestock showing at the fair pavilion on north Main street and home economics exhibits in the former Dix grocery room in the Masonic building. Doors to both places - will be open until 6 o'clock p. m. DISTRICT MEETING AT IONE SATURDAY NIGHT . Attention of" all members of Ruth Chapter No. 32, OE.S. is called to the district meeting to be held at lone Saturday evening, Oct. 19. The district includes Ruth Chapter and Locust Chapter No. 119. Lodge convenes at 8 p. m. with Locust chapter as hostess. Good tendance of Ruth chapter members would be greatly appreciated, ac cording to Mrs. Ella Benge, Worthy Matron. HERE FROM ASHLAND Mrs. B. C. Forsythe arrived from Ashland Thursday of last week to spend 10 days at the home of Mr and Mrs. Edwin Dick. In honor of her mother's visit, Mrs. Dick in vited Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Crawford, former Ashland residents, to dinner Monday evening. TRANSACTED BUSINESS Laxton McMurray, Jordan ranch er, was a business visitor in Hepp ner Monday. While here he called at the GT office to buy trespass and hunting notices with which to post his place. Birds are plentiful along the creek this season and his place appears to be particularly well stocked. IN TOWN SATURDAY Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Currin of Pi lot Rock were business visitors in Heppner Saturday. NEW JERSEY MAN LIKES OREGON DEER Non-resident licenses are not being bought in great, numbers this year and County Clerk Charles Barlow was beginning to think the supply in his office would just accumulate dust. His fears were allayed some what yesterday when Harry L. Wilson of Hopewell, New Jer sey came into t'te office and laid $15 on the desk for a hunt-" ing license. The name Hopewell rang bells in the clerk's memory and he recalled that Harry L. Wilson appeared at the office about this time last year and bought a non resident license. There must be a rare flavor to the Blue Moun tain mowitch to induce a hunt er to come clear across t'te continent for his annual deer shooting. Hunting Season Opens With Bang-and We Mean Bang ! ! ! ! Perhaps it was intuition, or poss ibly someone had inside information, but whatever it was, hunters in this section were prepared ior a wild dash into the timbered areas in pursuit of venison almost the instant word reached here that the game commission had rescinded its order of September 24 closing the entire state to hunting and angling. From every direction cars poured onto the roads leading to deer haunted areas of the Blue mount ains and with the coming of sun rise Sunday morning the denizens of the forest were fully aware that there was a blitz on. While the slaughter was not greet, numerous hunters returned home Sunday evening with their bucks. Others, lass fortunate, returned to the hunt Monday and reports trick ling in show that about the average number of deer are being brought in, based on the number of hunters in the woods. Reports on the big gest buck are lacking, that being a matter of . later season concern. Harry A. Wesch Victim of Torpedo Mrs. Elbert Cox received word Wednesday that her son-in-law, Harry A. Wesch, lost his life Octo ber 5 when a tanker on which he was serving was torpedoed and sunk off the Pacific coast. Details were lacking, Wesch being mentioned among tha missing. Wesch was the 'husband of Marie Scrhncr, Mrs. Cox's daughter by a former marriage. He had been a member of the merchant marine about a year and had a rating of sea man third class. The Wesch's home is at Long Beach, California, where Mrs. Cox's other daughter, Norma Scrivner, also makes her home. VISIT CORPL. HEMRICH AT BEAVERTON HOME Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Gonty drove to Beaverton Saturday where they spent the week end visiting Mrs. Gontys brother, Corpl. Raymond Hemrich. Corpl. Hemrich has been trans ferred to the air base at Santa Ana, California, and had a brief furlough to visit his parents at Beaverton. LT. ADKINS VISITS Second Lt. Hazel L. Adkins spent a lew days at the home of her mother, Mis. Laura DriscoU, the past week. She had been' trans ferred from Fort Stevens to Fort George Wright at Spokane and stopped off here en route. She is now stationed with the army air corps hospital at Fort Wright. Miss Bertha Akers of lone is an other Morrow county girl attaining the rank of second lieutenant in the hospital corps and she also is stationed at Fort Wright. Are Them Days Gone Forever? The tendency to date is to bag smaller animals if possible, experi enced hunters stating that they pre fer the meat of the smaller ones. In all events, larders are being stocked up with wild meat against those meatless days we have been hearing about In issuing the order the commis sion urged all sportsmen to exer cise caution wherever they go and particularly in forests where there remain some critical areas. Not all points arc open to deer hunting, particularly some of the slash areas in eastern Oregon, and these will be posted, the commission states. Many Morrow county farmers and ranchers have been busy the . past few days posting their places in preparation for the bird season. They are not particularly interested" in protecting the pheasants and other game birds but hope to pre vent over-running of their places by careless hunters who show little regard for livestock, guinea fowls and kindred farm population. FIRST BALLOT CAST HERE WEDNESDAY Election is some three weeks off but balloting has started in Morrow County. The law pro vides that every registered vot er has but to apply to the county clerk for a ballot which is mail ed to him and which Ik takes to a notary where marking up is done and notary's seal placed upon it. ' - This law applies to those go ing away before election day and in compliance with that provision, Tom Wells, county assessor, who is leaving Satur day for service with Uncle Sam's forces, made application for an absentee ballot and marked it up forthwith, thus having the distinction of casting t'l first Morrow county ballot in the general election. Stockman Reports Candidacy Favored Lowell Stockman, Helix wheat rancher and business man of Pen dleton, spent a few hours in Hep pner Wednesday interviewing vot ers relative to his candidacy for congressman from the second con gressional district. ' Stockman recently returned from the southern part of the district wherei he states, he received many assurances of favorable support. This was true in the larger centers like Klamath Falls and Bend, while reports coming from the district in general indicate that his candidacy is daily growing in more favor. Mrs. Al Huitt and baby of Seattle are visiting at the home of Mrs. Huitt's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Howell. mm hintrin j. in - Governor Sprague Urges Farmers to Aid Apple Men Just at press time the Ga zette Times had a communica tion from C. W. Smith, secre tary of the Eastern Oregon Wheat League, stating that Governor Sprague has issued a request to tab league to use its influence in securing labor for the Hood River orchardists. According to Smith, the Hood River apple crop, or at least a large part of it, will go unharvested unless drastic ac tion is taken to supply pickers. The Governor suggests that this is an opportunity for the wheat farmers of eastern Ore gon to invoke the good neigh bor policy by sparing all labor possible for a short time to help save t"'is va'uablc fruit cropk An effort to get in touch with Terrill Benge, Morrow county committeeman, failed and Smith called this- office in an effort to get the seriousness of the Hood River situation before the pub lic as early as possible. Hearing Tests on School Schedule School children in Morrow county are to be given hearing tests, Mrs. Anne Thomas, Public Health Nurse, announces. The tests will be given by Miss Rebecca Overstreet, Audio metrist for tha Staite Board of Health. She will arrive in the coun ty from Arlington on Monday, Octo ber 19, to begin tests at lone. The children's hearing will be tested by means of a group audio meter, which tests forty people at a time. This instrument is a special type phonograph to which are at tached forty receivers. Children listen to the numbers that are re produced from a record. The num bers fade rapidly so that the children with poor hearing cannot record thj numbers on charts provided for the tests. The test is repeated on children who fail. Later a very precise test will be given by Dr. Warren H. Gardener, Consultant in Hearing and Vision of the Oregon State Board of Health. Mrs. Thomas states that these tests will be used to detect children who have hearing losses that are often not suspected. Pupils misun derstood in school and getting low marks are found to have hearing losses. Parents of these children will be invited to school to talk to Efr. Gardener. Tests will be given at Lexington on Monday afternoon, at Heppner on Tuesday, October 20. Miss Over street will test in Umatilla and Wallowa counties before returning to test at Irrigon on Nov. 12 and Boardman on the following day. VISITS SON IN SEATTLE i Mrs. Lee A. Sprinkle returned Sunday from Seattle where she spent a week visiting her son, Dean, employed in the Boeing aircraft plant. Or Are They? Scrap Iron and Steel Continue To Roll In Week-end Campaign Got Good Results; Drive to Continue Scrap iron and steel are still pour ing in at the depots of the county and if the present rate is maintain ed until the 18th, other counties of the state will have to reckon with Morrow when it comes to the award ing of the grand prize. Definite figures are not obtainable at this' writing, but figures submit ted by C. D. Conrad, county chair man of the salvage drive, indicate that up to Wednesday this county was well on its way to achieving the goal of 1,000,000 pounds. The greatest problem has been in get ting cars to ship the metal and in obtaining sufficient help in loading the cars. Regardless . of that fact, upwards of one-half the goal was attained during the three-day in tensified drive and more and more of the material is coming each day. Aside from the approximately 450,000 pounds handled by the sal vage committees, private interests have gathered in and shipped some thing like 200,000 pounds. If the privately handled metal counts in the county's total, and it should, there is reason to believe that Mor row county will be one of the units accounting for an average of 200 pounds of scrap metal per per: v. EFFORTS PRAISED In a letter to Conrad, Rod Fin ney, assistant executive secretary of the Oregon salvage committee, included the following article for publication in the Gazette Times: "Citizens of Morrow county who have joined hands with people all over America in the current in tensive campaign for scrap metals are to be congratulated for the efforts they are putting forth in this vital war program," Rod Finney assistant executive secretary of the Oregon State Salvage committee, declared in Heppner last Thursday. Expressing the appreciation of Claude I. Sersanous, state salvage chairman, and Ralph H. Mitchell, the executive secretary of Oregon, for the work already accomplished by Morrow county salvage com mittees and cooperating agencies in "Getting In The Scrap," Finney pointed out that Oregon must meet a quota of at least 100,000 tons of iron and steel metals before De cember 31. "Representing an average of at least 200 pounds per person, this is a high goal at which we are shooting," he said, "but it can be at tained and must be attained if we are to keep our steel mills rolling in the months to come." "Due to the unprecedented scope of America's war production pro gram, the nation's steel mills now face a continued shortage of iron and steel scrap, and as a result huge stockpiles of these essential waste materials mast be collected, Continued on Page Seven IF YOU PON' r mail cy "0Vf16ER JBAGMLieS