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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.