Heppner Gazette Times, December 10, 1942 5
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THE HEPPNER GAZETTE
Established March 30, 1883
THE HEPPNER TIMES
Established November 18, 1897
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bring cheer to scores of youngsters.
Staging of the dance requires a certain
amount of money but everything
above actual expenses is invested in
treats for the children. Whether you
intend t ouse the dance tickets, or not
is immaterial. Purchase of one or more
of them will aid the firemen in carry
ing on a tradition which was founded
on merit. Santa Cdaus is taking a beat
ing these days and this, is one method
of preserving the faith of the young
in the mythical old "Goodfellow" dur
ing a time when the destiny of the
world is being shaped on the field of
battle.
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EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED
Young people of the present gene
ration are faced with conditions such
as possibly have never been met by.
earlier generations. This war is dif
ferent inasmuch as the aggressors bear
a personal grudge against every in
stitution we cherish and iwhich con
tribute to a democratic way of life. If
successful, our enemies would immed
iately banish churches and schools in
favor of compulsory military train
ing and a mode of life directly con
trary to the principles and ideals which
have made this a great nation.
. At present our young people have
nothing to look forward to but possi
ble military service for those meeting
the requirements and war work for
others. It may even come to pass that
inter collegiate and inter-high school
activities will cease temporarily. War
time necessity for production and trans
portation points in that direction to
day and it will not be surprising if there
is, a great curtailment when school op
ens in the efall of 1943 When that time
arrives our young people will face it
with a firm resolve to carry through
and contribute their share towards vic
tory. Their attitude to date has, been
one of unselfish cooperation and is
helping make the job of organizing for
all-out war easier.
Faced with all the serious problems
attendant upon the war, the picture is
apt to become drab and have a tenden
cy to dwarf the outlook of the yourig
people unless extra-curricular activit
ies are maintained. Insofar is is physi
cally possible athletics should be en
couraged. The besj: obtainable coaches
should be retained for instruction in
play and physical development, for
now as, never before strong bodies and
alert minds are needed. Contests which
have featured school life in recent years
should not be entirely abandoned. Cur
tailment may be in order but a certain
amount of competition is essential to
morale. College and high school athlet
ic training is showing its worth in Un
cle Sam's new army, establishing proof
in favor of continuing such training
even if it has to be directed alon mili
tary channels.
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HELP THE SMOKE EATERS
Heppner's volunteer firemen have
schduled their annual ball for this Sat
urday night. Tickets have been on sale
for several days, with what success we
have no tbeen informed. If the sale has
not gone well, it should. The fire lad
dies dvote no small amount of time in
keping equipment in running order and
stand ready at all times to rush to your
assistance when the red demon strikes.
The dance is, given to raise funds
for the firemen's Christmas treat
another unselfish service designed to
FIRE CAN BE FINAL
Millions of people will soon have
to walk to their offices and their groc
ery stores because the United States
is desperately short of rubber. And
yet in a single fire we allowed one
tenth of our total crude rubber supply
to go up in smoke! We allowed care
lessness, to do the work of an enemy
bomber. We allow the same careless
ness to destroy hundreds of millions
of dollars in property and thousands
of lives every year. The taxes we pay
to support fire departments, cannot
protect us against our own careless
ness. Nothing can protect us except
a final realization that uncontrolled
fire is, a deadly menace. Once we real
ize that, the problem of fires can be
solved.
The National Board of Fire Under
writers has published a book entitled
"Fire Prevention Education." It is
written expressly for the use of teach
ers, community leaders, fire chiefs
public officials, Scouts, and civilian
.defense aides. It applies to home and
factory alike. For example, it points
out that 40 fires a day in the United
States are due to careless use of the
electric iron; the bill for this particu
lar piece of neglect is $1,625,000 annu
ally. Most of these fires could be elim
inated merely by the use, of an auto
matic temperature control switch that
prevents the iron from attaining ex
cessive temperatures.
And so it goes. The bulk of our an
nual fire loss could easily be averted.
All that is necessary is a little individ
ual effort, something that too many
of us fail to exert until it is too late.
And then we never get a second chance
because fire is very often like death. It
can be final.
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AND THEY ARE SUCH LITTLE
THINGS!
That little bottle cap which you jerk
off the top of the "coke" bottle and
throw to one side: have you ever con
sidered the enormity of its size col
lectively? Neither had we until figures
submitted by C. F. Miller of Salem to
the state department of agriculture
reached out desk this week.
Read what Miller has, figured out:
"Almost 50 million bottle caps per
working day, or 15 billion this year,
were manufactured in the United
States. That's 392,000 miles of caps or
enough to circle the earth about 16
times. It takes a million gallons of par
affin for a year's output in disc caps
alone.
"A year's production in pull caps
would stretch about 9.000 miles three
times across the continent from New
York to San Francisco. And wires or
staples on pull caps, if joined in one
piece, would stretch about 130,000
miles, five times around the earth, and
would weigh over a million pounds or
525 tons equivalent of 105 freight
carloads."
Texas Man Recalls
Early Day Scenes
Clark Retirement Brings to Mind
Events in Heppn&r In Pre
Automobile Period
In far-away Texas, Garfield
Crawford read the account of Mack
Clark's retirement from the groc
ery business, with eventual com
plete retirement from business as
his goal and this started him to
reflecting back to the days when
genuine buckaroos, bedecked in 10
gallon hats, flannel shirts and chaps
and spurs, congregated at Hepp
ner's numerous bars to mingle
with stockmen, gamblers and the
hoi polloi or what have you; when
freighters, weary and thirsty from
their long, dusty trek over the hills
to pick up freight at Heppner. ware
houses and stores for distribution
to interior points as far south as
Burns, joined the motley throngs
to soothe their parched throats and
exchange a few . pleasantries with
the "boys". Those were the "good
old days" we hear about insofar
as Heppner is concerned.
It was during that "golden" era
that Garfield as a stripling youth
left the parental roof at Waitsburg
and ventured away off down to
Heppner in pursuit of knowledge
in the art preservative namely, the
printing trade. Brother Vawter was
foreman of the Gazette, then pub
lished by Otis Pattersoni. A chron
icle of Garfield's activities during
the dozen or more years he called
Heppner his home would fill a
sizeable book and we hope he will
come through some of these days
with a column or two for his mem
ory of events combined with adept
story-telling makes interesting
reading.'
But we are drifting from the or
iginal thought and will come to the
gist of this story what Garfield
has to say about "Mack" and "Bally"
and a few others. Quote:
"When I picked up the G-T and
saw where Mack Clark was retiring
from business and hat Will Ball
would take his first vacation in for
ty years I was tempted to write you
an old timer's letter. .It brought
back pictures in my mind of Mack
loading freight , wagons in front of
the old Minor store, Henry Hep
pner building. Mack wore white
shirts and black suits, generally, or
blue black. I could see him smear
ed with flour dust over his vest and
trousers as he would truck flour
from a warehouse in the rear, out
through the store to the sidewalk.
Mike Roberts used to be quite an
expert at this sort of work, too. I
could see Bally loading down at Tom
Howard's grocery, where now is lo
cated Thomson Bros., but Bally was
young then I have seen Main
street crowded from the Fair store
to Natter's brewery with " freight
wagons, and I have seen Main
street nothing more than a huge
mudhole from the Willow creek
bridge to the cap rock at the old
Mountain House'.'
There is much more reminiscing
in the letter which time and space
forbid the uss of at this time. In
conclusicn, tha brother stated that
he is about to take off for the na
tional capital to accept a position
in the office of Senator Lee O'Dan
iel, whose recent campaign he
managed.
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