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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1942)
HlSTORAf, SOC I ETY AUDITOR A it D , 0 nv a if-if . . . Drive for USO Funds to Start After Election Overdue Quota to Be Raised Quickly, Chairman Avers Morrow county's quota of USO funds, now considerably overdue, will be raised quickly once the drive gets underway, according to Henry C. Aiken, who has accepted the job as chairman. This year's . quota is $600, an advance of $400 .over the 1941 quota, but in the op inion of the chairman and others -interested in raising the fund, this amount will be easier to raise than last year's allotment. Busy with a political campaign, Aiken has had little time to con sider plans for the drive and as soon as election is over will set to work completing an organization. Nucleus for the fund is expected from the recent scrap iron salvage , campaign, in which numerous do nations were made in behalf of the "USO. In some instances, as with H. D. McCurdy, whole truckloads of scrap metal were weighed in for the benefit of the organization but what the net results will be will not be known until returns are in. It will be necessary to raise sever - . al hundred dollars above the sal vage donations, it is stated. In connecion with the forthcom ing drive, it is suggested that peo- pie keep in mind the broad pur pose of the USO organization and the constantly increasing demand for service as the armed forces grow in number. To meet the re quirements of this type of service it is necessary to enlarge budgets .of each center to enable directors and their staffs to give equal ser vice to every member of the armed forces seeking such entertainment. New centers are being authorized f 2riodica(lly and each new group requires a certain amount of fi nancing. This doubtless will be the rule until sufficient centers have b:en established to care for the .army camp and airbase centers. "Anyone who has seen the boys enjoying themselves at the USO center will not find it difficult to ,dig up a few dollars for this pur pose," Aiken stated. "Nearly all of us have a son, brother, or some .other close relative in the service .and it is comforting to know that they have a place to go where there is a homelike atmosphere where they can relax and enjoy .clean, wholesome recreation. Mor row county has met all require ments so far and will not fail on .this. You can rely on that." Pierce Accorded Good Reception Congressman , Walter M Pierce -was a Heppner visitor Wednesday . night, coming here to fill a speak ing engagement in behalf of his candidacy. He was greeted by an enthusiastic crowd at the Elks tem ple where he discussed the issues of the campaign and delineated -the work of congress in the pre . sent crisis. Remaining for part of Thursday morning, Mr. Pierce visited the business section renewing acquain .tances and meeting new people. Evangelistic Meetings To Close Sunday The evangelistic meetings which have been in progress at the Hepp ner Church of Christ for the past month, under direction of W. W. White, will come to a close with a "break the record day" this Sun- , day, Nov. 1. The goal for the Bible school is an attendance of 150. Evangelist White's topic for Fri day night is "The Cow-boy's Mes sage;" Saturday, "Detours on the Devil's Highway;" Sunday a. m., "Going Which Way?" and the . closing message Sunday evening, "One Word that Kept a Man Out , of the Church." There will be a fellowship dinner i at the noon hour Sunday. All mem bers and friends of the church have been invited to attend these final meetings. Cutsforth Buys Registered Stock O. W; Cutsforth of Lexington is fast becoming known as a cattle man as well as a wheatraiser. Since embarking in "white face" production a few years ago, he has added to his herd until today he is counted "in" by other cattle raisers. Cutsforth's latest investment in cattle was made at Burns recently when he invested $9100 in register ed Herefords. The stock was pur chased from the Claude Whitenhil ler herd, famed throughout the catttle kingdom as a sturdy beef producing strain. The animals were raised on Whitenhiller's Happy Valley ranch. . Morrow county stock rates high with Cutsforth too, for he recently added two bulls from the Roy Rob inson stock to his herd. Robinson was exhibiting the animals at the Pacific International in Portland and when put up for sale Cuts forth stepped forward and bought them. Van Admits Business Good at Vancouver Business is good at Vancouver, according to La Verne Van Marter, former Heppner business man, who now is engaged in business in the shipyard area. Van arrived in Hep pner last week-end for a brief hunting excursion into the Blue mountains and stopped long enough to tell some of his friends about the set-up in Portland and Van couver. Van Marter has two concessions in the Vancouver shipyard district, one general store and another place where ice cream, soft drinks, drug supplies and numerous other items are sold He stated that he soon will open a recreation hall where hundreds of workers can be accommodated. In the same area where tha Van Marter concessions are located, Henry Thiele, famous Portland res-taure- itcv.-, has the largest restaur ant in the world, so it is claimed The place has a , seating capacity of 2,000 and is plenty busy, Van Marter states. Save Wild Animal Fat Advises Wire All deer and elk hunters were urged today by Frank B. Wire, su pervisor of the state game commis sion, to save all deer and elk fat and turn it over to the govern ment in the same manner as house wives are disposing of their surplus kitchen drippings. If all of the surplus deer and elk fat were entered in the govern ment's campaign to accumulate fats for the manufacture of explo sives it would make a considerable quantity. Wire said, since between 20,000 and 30,000 deer are killed each year and last year 3,557 elk were killed by hunters in Oregon. It would be a simple matter for the fat to be rendered into tallow in camp before it is brought home. Wire said, or it could be rendered at home. Any such fata salvaged should be turned over to any butcher who will pay for it the same as he does the housewife for her drippings. TO ENTER NAVY C. J. Dean of The Dalles, popu lar representative of the Blake Moffit & Towne Paper company, Deane states that he has been ac was in Heppner a few hours today, cepted for service as a store man oger in the navy, being young enough to be drafted and too old for combat duty, and expects to be placed shortly after the first of the year. Since tires are scarce and gasoline is to be rationed, knights of the grip are rapidly disappear ing from the scenes of their ac customed routes. IN TOWN TUESDAY Nelson "Nack" Bartholomew spent a few hours in Heppner Tuesday, coming from Walla Wal la Where he is connected with the Daily Bulletin. As circulation rep resentative for the Bulletin he cov ers an extensive territory in south eastern Washington and northeast ern Oregon. PICKING APPLES Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wells have joined the army of pickers assist ing in saving the Hood River apple crop. Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, October 29, 1942 Army Bomber Crashes Near Pine City Home Pilot Displays Rare Heroism in Effort To Save Others An army pilot Lt John Nathan Boyd, lost his life Monday h a crash on Butter creek after he had seen his three companions para chute to safety Realizing that a crash was imminent, Lt Boyd or dered the other members of the crew to abandon the ship and ap parently hadn't time to save him self before the big plane crashed into a hillside near the Charles Bartholomew place. The accident happened about 2 p. m. Monday while ithe pHlane was on a routine flight from the Walla Walla airbase. Lt. Col. Paul Barton, commanding officer at the base, appointed a court of quali fied air corps officers to deter mine the exact cause of the crash. According to the story gained from the three enlisted men. Lieu tenant Boyd, when he discovered a crash was imminent ordered them to take to their parachutes and safety Mrs. Bartholomew reported the accident to the Pendleton field and an ambulance and other equip ment were dispatched immediate ly. The crash occurred about four miles from the Bartholomew resi dence. The three enlisted men who parachuted to earth were Corporal Stanley E. Pearson of Minneapolis; Private Robert L. Mason of Fre mont, Utah, and Private Edward N. Winebrenner of Niles, Ohio, all from the Walla Walla airbase. Lieutenant Boyd was the son of E. M Boyd of Yuba City, Calif. He attended' the California Agri cultural college before entering the air corps. ATTENDS SCHOOL Ilene Laughlin, secretary of the Morrow county rationing board, spent Wednesday in Pendleton at tending a school of instruction on new phases of government wartime control of commodities. IN PORTLAND Mr. and Mrs. Gus Nikander and Mrs. Nikander's mother, Mrs. M. L. Case, drove to Portland Sun day where Mrs. Case is receiving eye treatment LEAVE FOR FOSSIL Card Greaves and John Parker, who spent several weeks in Hepp ner checking state income tax re cords, left Sunday for Fossil to spend a week or more in the same work. Nylon Hose Put Under Regulation Detailed regulations concerning the new dollars and cents reduced ceiling prices on women's nylon hosiery have been received by the Morrow county war price and ra tioning board in sufficient quanti ties to supply all retailers selling hosiery, who are asked to call at the board for a copy of the regu lation. The new prices are definite and apply to every store in the coun try regardless of what the mer chant was charging for nylon hos iery or what the cost of the hos iery was to him. Under the regulation each pal'' of hose must be marked not only with the ceiling price but with full information giving the type and quality of hose. GUEST DEPARTS Mrs. Harry DuCheune of Spo kane who has been the guest of her brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Chaffee, departed last week for Castle Rock, Wash., to visit her daughter. TO WINTER IN PORTLAND Mr. and Mrs. Lester Doolittle left Tuesday for Portland where they plan to spend the winter. Mr. Doo little expects to engage in some type of defense work while in the city. . Mra Cora Crawford returned Monday from Joseph where she vi sited for a couple of week. Special Taxes Can Be Reduced Through Initiative Measure In the following article, Mrs. Lucy Rodgers, Morrow county su perintendent of schools reveals fi gures which support the contention of proponents of Initiative measure 312 that school districts will bene fit through passage of the bill. Says Mrs Rodgers: Special school district taxes in Morrow county can be reduced by $30,233.00 if Initiative measure 312 is voted YES by the people of Ore gon next Tuesday. The total amount of special school district tax money turned over to the school districts of this county for the school year 1941-42 amounted to $145,764.00 The above figure of $30,233.00 decrease in special school district taxes is for the county which was 135,575. based, on the total days' attendance The figures for this off set in district tax are based on the es timated $14,000,000.00 income tax receipts for 1942, recently announc ed by the state tax commission. Distribution would be made to the school districts of the actual days' attendance of pupils in the school disricts throughout the state. $7, 750,000 of the above amount will be used for state purposes thus re lieving the necessity for any pro perty tax levy for the state $6 250,000, or the surplus, would be available for distribution to schools districts to apply on their budgets as cash receipt. Dividing this sur plus by the total days' attendance for the state for 1941-42 gives 22.3 cents per pupil per days' atten dance. The total days attendance for the various school districts for Morrow county are as follows: Heppner, 48,421 x .223 gives $10, 797 88 Irrigon, 15,329 x .223, $3,418.36 Lexington, 16,243 x 223, $3,622.19. Boardman 20,113 x .223, $4,485.52. lone, 21,582 x .223, $4,812.78. . Hardman, 3,758, x .223, 771.13 Union high, 1,043, x .223,, $232.58 Liberty, 2,878, x .223, 641.79. Hirls, 834, x .223, $186 00. For districts that transport pu pils no figures are available at this time as to the attendance but these districts would also receive their apportionments on the same basis, Tr.x Payers! Vote 312 X YES! North Heppner Booth Changed Voters of North Heppner pre cinct will vote in new quarters Tuesday, according to Sheriff Clar ence Bauman, who states that he will remove the booths from the room just west of the Gazette Times office to the recently voca ed Central Morket building on Main street. The move was necessitated through occupation of the former quarters by. the Morrow county ra tioning board. MEET SON IN PORTLAND Mr. and Mrs. Alva Jones drove to Portland Friday and were joined by their son Don, student at Uni versity of Oregon in Eugene. Don was sworn in as a reserve while in the city and returned to school. Mr. and Mrs. Jones returned home Tuesday. WEEK-EN D IN EUGENE Mr and Mrs. R. B. Ferguson and daughter Mary Lou and Mrs. Lera Crawford drove to Eugene Friday evening. The object of the trip was to cheer up a group of homesick boys. VISIT FRIENDS HERE Mr. and Mra John Kline and baby of Elmira, Wash were week end guests at the James Driscoll's and the J. F. Lucas's. Mrs. Kline was the former Emma Ellen Fort-ner. MUSIC CLUB TO MEET The Music Study club will meet Wednesday evening at the home of Miss Leta Humphreys. Chorus prac tice, will claim the attention of the group at 7:30 o'clock. IN PORTLAND Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Turner made a business trip to Portland Friday, returning to Heppner Sunday. VISITING PARENTS Mrs. Farley Applegate and baby of Hood River are visiting Mrs. Ap plegate's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Farley. Volume 59, Number 31 Interest Mounts As Election Day Approaches Congressional and Governorship Tilts Hold Stage Center Only five more days and the county can settle back to as near normal life as war conditions will permit, for next Tuesday will bring an end to the political campaign which has been holding every thing else in abeyance, although failing in itself to create much in terest. During the past week or ten days there has been an upsurge of interest in candidates and meas ures, nothing smacking of presi dential election campaigns, but outcroppings of partisan beliefs ex pressed mainly in wagers on the outcome of certain races. Main in terest centers on the Sneil -Wallace race for governor and the Stockman-Pierce contest for con gressman in the second district It has been reported1 that a con siderable block of money sent in to place on Wallace was eagerly taken by local backers of Snell, but there have been no reports of extensive Wallace backing locally. Democrats are claiming Multnomah county for their candidate and some of the bets were placed on his winning that county. Pierce money has been readily matched1 by Stockman backers, it is stated, and as election time ap proaches the Pendleton man seems to have the upper hand in the con test It is a large district and one of many types of interests and the man controlling the largest repre sentative groups has the best chance of winning. Least excitement is expressed over the senatorial race. There may be a surprise in this contest but if there is the public will be greatly surprised McNary is being criticized for some of his votes on war measures and for the length of service, but most voter's will think twice before scratching a man who has delivered such val uable service to the state, the northwest and to the counry at larga. This paper has no axes to grind: It has been a supporter of the re publican party since its inception nearly 60 years ago and still holds to the principles of that party. In the present campaign it has had no occasion to jump the track and therefore recommends the follow ing candidates. United States senator, Charles L. McNary. Representative in congress, sec ond congressional district, Lowell Stockman. Governor, Earl Snell. Secretary of State, Robert S Farrell, Jr. Labor commissioner, W. E. Kim sey. State senator, Rex Ellis. Representatives, Henry Peterson and Giles Franch. County judge, Bert Johnson. County commissioner, C. W. McNamer. County treasurer, Leon W. Briggs. County assessor, Thomas J Wells. County surveyor, Harry Tam blyn. Special Matinee Set For Saturday P M. Theatre patrons of Heppner and vicinity will be given an oppor tunity to participate in the scrap drive and at the same time enjoy a good show at the Star theatre. All that is necessary to gain admission to the special matinee is to deposit 10 pounds of scrap metal or rub ber or five old keys. The pictures will be a musical western, "Riders of the Badlands," a comedy and a community sing. The feature stars Charles Starrett, and Russell Hayden, two western actors who have proved popular with Morrow county patrons. The local theatre's showing is in accordance with plans announced by Governor Sprague designating Saturday, Oct 31 as official scrap drive for the motion picture industry.
