Image provided by: Morrow County Museum; Heppner, OR
About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1943)
o r 9 o - 0 -X ibmtner O Ml Our Men in Service The following letter from Herb McDaniel expresses the sentiment of all Americans and is written in typical soldier language. Dated March 16, 1943 and written to his sister, Mrs. Victor Lovgren, Pvt. Herbert Z. McDaniel states his po sition as follows: ' "Fm on an island in the South Pacifia taking it easy at present. I've been in action though and did ok. We knocked the hell out of the damn Japs and had a very small loss in our outfit. I have several to my credit and expect to get several more before I get back. The Japs aren't tiear as good sol diers as the American soldiers. I'm in a crack combat outfit, too but it lacks a devil of a lot of being fun. Spring ought to be breaking there by now. This is one I'm going to miss I guess. But I'll guarantee that those damn Japs pay plenty for ev ery spring they cause me to miss at home." Herb also said that Marvin Sad dler is located in the same area. This is to inform you of my change in address. I enjoy reading the old hometown paper very much and was disappointed in the ab sence of the column " Our Men" in recent issues. It is the only avail able means of finding out where some of my friends are. Sincerely yours, Paul A. Doolittle Lee Field, Jacksonville Fla Yesterday' 1 received a late copy of the Gazette Times and was very glad to get it. It is impossible to keep abreast of home events with out the paper. Apparently the address you have for me is an old one. The paper fol lowed me thru nearly every camp in the south. I wish to correct the address in order to save the post of fice so much troube. It is a good thing I didn't write this yesterday, because only this morning I got my new rating. Yes terday I was a corporal, today a sergeant. The space you devote each week to news from the service men is particularly interesting. It is so hard for us to keep in touch with what the other home town boys are doing. Please keep the paper coming. Perhaps some of us will write some really good news for you to print in it soon. Sincerely yours, Sergeant Francis Nickerson Lee Field, Jacksonville, Fla. Welcome B. McAlister has just reported back to Gulf Port, Miss af ter spending his furlough at Mt. Cormel, Pa. He is in the navy con struction battalion. Mr. and Mrs. Noah Pettyjohn of lone have received word that their son, Cpl Lee H. Pettyjohn, U. S. M. C, has been translerred over peas, possibly to the South Pacific zone. The family had not heard from Lee for some time and still do not know where he is located. HE HELPED PRINT FIRST PAPER ISSUED HERE IN MARCH 1883 Merlin, Ore March 24, '43 Editor Gazette: This is to con gratulate the Gazette on its three-score birthday which oc curs, or occurred, this month. I have forgotten the date. In March 1883, I unwrapped the new type from the foun dry, "laid the cases," "set" the first issue, and most of the rest f them the following three years. Sixty years is a long time. Long live the Heppner Gazette. Harry L. Keyte Heppner, Student Report on Food to Be Made To Sec. Wickard High Schools Enter State Contest on Food Conservation Morrow county high school stu dents will take part in a special statewide activity to report to Sec retary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard on how Oregonians are conserving and producing one of the top war materials food. County School Superintendent Lucy Rodgers yesterday announced that details of a contest being sponsored by the Elks lodge have been forwarded to county high schools. Participating students will report on either of two subjects "How We Conserve ,War Food in Our Home," or "How We Produce War Food on Our Farm." The re port will be in the form of letters addressed to Secretary Wickard. The student writing the best let ter in the county will be awarded a $25 war bond by the Heppner Elks lodge. In" addition, a state prize of a $100 war bond will be awarded! by the State Elks assoc iation. Henry Baker, chairman of the Morrow county USDA war board, said that the Elks are sponsoring the contest as a method of empha sizing the importance of food in winning the war. Hie contest will serve' to focus attention on the part which every county resident must take in the wartime food pro gram helping farmers produce' the food, and then making sure that none of it is wasted. The three best letters written in each school will be seleced by the teachers and forwarded to the county USDA war board, which will determine the best county let ter. The state USDA war board will select the state winner. Be sides the war bond awards, writers of the best letters will be given recognition by Secretary Wickard. Grade Principal Elected Saturday Directors of school district No. 1, Heppner, held a meeting Saturday afternoon and elected Everett K. Smith of Cove grade principal for next year. Other teaching positions remaining to be filled were discuss ed by the board and Supt. George Corwin but as yet no definite ac tion has been taken. Smith, graduate of Eastern Ore gon College of Education at La Grande, has had two years' exper ience, both at Cove. Aside from regular curricular duties he will train and direct a boys' chorus. The girls' chorus is under the di rection of Miss Rose Hoosier. History and mathematics teach ers, or a combination of the two, are claiming the attention of Supt. Corwin who states that hiring of teachers is no child's play these days. LIONS CLUB HOLDS CONCLUDING SESSION Heppner Lions cub "closed the books" Monday at the regular luncheon meeting at the Lucas Place. The meeting was attended by the few remaining members of the club and a number of chamber of commerce members and plans for continuation of the luncheon meet ings by the combined groxips were discussed. Throughout the 90-day period voted on at the previous meeting, as a try-out of merging the clubs a chairman for each suc ceeding meeting will be drawn from the names of those present. Lee Howell was designated as next Mon day's chairman. Miss Rose Hoosier presented her grade girls' chorus in a couple of numbers. Oregon, Thursday, April Stubble Mulch for Retarding Wind, Water Erosion Being Studied Thru Field Trials Field trials on methods of pre paring stubble mulch for retard ing wind and water erosion have been established' this past week on the Bergevin farm at lone and on the Frank Anderson farm in Eight mile section by Joe Belanger, pro ject supervisor for the soil con servation service. These trials are each about 40 acres in size and are large enough to show results of certain types of equipment when used on larger scale operations. Belanger is using a duck-foot type implement with sttubble lift ers for the initital plowing opera tions and for all "subsequent culti vations. The seeding operations will be done with a Dempster type drill. Previous small trials conducted by Belanger with this implement has shown that heavy stubble can be handled and he now wishes to establish larger trials throughout Congressional Bill Makes Feed Wheat Again Available Feed wheat to help county farm ers meet livestock and poultry goals is again available from com modity credit stock, Henry Baker, chairman of the county AAA com mittee, announced yesterday. The feed wheat program, halted a month ago when the original al location of 125,000,000 bushels was exhausted, has been resumed as a result of passage of a bill by Con gress authorizing the sale of an other -100,000,000 bushels of government-owned wheat. Under price schedules announc ed for March, the wheat is avail able in this county at a cost of $1.03 a bushel. April prices have not been announced, and it is pos sible that the new prices will be slightly higher the chairman said. Under the ' original program, wheat was offered at the equivalent of 85 percent of the corn parity price. The bill passed by Congress last week authorizing the sale of an additional amount increased the price to the equivalent of full par ity for corn. W. O. DIX BACK ON JOB AT COURTHOUSE Greatly improved in health and gaining strength daily, W. 0. Dix, county assessor pro tern, is back on the job at the courthouse after spending two months in a hospi tal in The Dalles. According to his own statement, he feels better than he has for many years and expects to see this world trouble cleared up before signing off. J. O. Rasmus drove to The Dalles Saturday to bring Mr. Dix home. LOCAL PASTOR ASKED TO REMAIN ANOTHER YEAR Rev. Bennie Howe, who has been pastor of the Methodist church since September 1941, Sunday night was extended an invitation to re main as pastor for another year. The invitation was tendered at a quarterly conference held by Dr. Silas E. Fairham, district sup erintendent. The congregation met in the church basement where a potluck dinner was served. OFFICE OPEN SATURDAY P. M. Reversing a previous order clos ing the office at noon on Saturdays, the Morrow county rationing board has announced that the office will remain open Saturday afternoons until 3 p. m. to accommodate people who find it inconvenient to drive to town on other days. , 1943 the Columbia basin to obtain re sults on different types of soil, dif ferent amounts of stubble, and at the same time allow the farmers throughout the territory to have an opportunity of seeing the im plement in operation. Belanger does not contend that the implement he is using is the last word in farming equipment but he does say that it leaves the straw where it will protect the soil and at the same time making it possible to handle it. The supervisors of the Heppner soil conservation district at their regular meeting March 26 discussed the trials and wish to urge farmers throughout the district to observe, the results. The supervisors also voted to equip and maintain a soil conser vation service truck for fire fight ing purposes during the coming fire season. JUST ABOUT 50 PERCENT OVER SUBSCRIBED THAT'S ALL Morrow county folks oper ate on the principal that "we did it once and we can do it again." Latest evidence of this is found in figures submitted by Rev. Bennie Howe, Morrow county American Red Cross chairman, on the war fund cam paign which drew to a close . yesterday. This county's quota was set at $2100. That was not much when compared with war bond quotas, but since income taxes and other demands for funds were coming on regularly, it was not known how generous the public would be on outright donations. Well, this is the answer: Up to noon Wednesday, tabula tions made by Mr. Howe show ed that a total of $3,069.83 has been received at the First Na tional Bank of Portland, Hepp ner branch. It is the chair man's opinion that this will be considerably swelled when all districts have turned in the last of their subscriptions. Scout Work Takes On New Life Here Some organizations are experienc ing a slump in membership and interest due to the stress of war time conditions, but not so the lo cal troop of Boy Scouts. From the looks of things Scoutdom is on the way to staging a comeback that will place the Heppner troop back on the plane of former years. Impetus was given the revival movement when the local Scout council prevailed upon Sheriff John Fuiten and Ton Strait to act as scoutmaster and assistant, respect ively. The troop started meeting in the Ag room at the high school, with nine boys showing up for the second meeting. Monday evening of this week the turnout was 19. That created an overcrowded condition in the Ag room, so arrangements have been made to hold the meet ings in the basement of the Metho dist church. It is expected that ev en more boys will seek Tenderfoot rating. Scout council and Scoutmasters are contemplating an overnight hike before school closes. It is not likely that the hike could be suc cessfully conducted during summer vacation as many of the boys will seek employment on farms and elsewhere. UP FROM CECIL Among Cecil residentst visiting Heppner Wednesday were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Krebs, Mrs. Roy Hurst, Mrs. John Krebs and Mrs Jack Hynd. Volume 60, Number 1 Defense Council Set-Up in County h,, f un luc iui iiaiiyc Co-Ordinator Plans Reorganization to Fill Depleted Ranks Reorganization of the Morrow County Defense Council will be undertaken in the immediate fu ture, according to Mayor J. O. Tur ner who returned late Wednesday evening from Salem after attend ing a conference of state defense officials called by Governor Earl Snell. Much of the county defense set up has been depleted by resigna tions and departure of numerous citizens to take up war work,, the mayor states, and it is time to strengthen the several departments through appointment of new mem bers. The 'origial council comprised 14 members. It is Turner's plan to reduce this number to seven to ef fect a more workable organization. ' Most of these will be named in Heppner, with associate members in other districts of the county. Police reserves, air raid wardens, fire reserves and utility squadall are badly depleted ,and new mem bers will have to be chosen and instructed in their work. Passage of House Bill No. 330 at the recent legislature grants cer tain powers to the governor in creating v -a state defense council. The original state defense set-up was organized under direction of the war department. Jerrold Owens is the state co-ordinator and Gov ernor Snell is state director. Food Production Meeting Scheduled A meeting to enlist the help of every boy and girl in Heppner in the production of food will be held in the Odd Fellows hall at 7:30 p. m., Monday evening, April 5. C. D. Conrad, county agent, is calling this meeting of all the boys and girls to find which ones are in a position to contribute to the food produc tion program by raising victory gardens, a pig, lamb, some rabbits, poultry or other food projects. All the boys and girls in Heppner are urged to attend this meeting and all parents are likewise urged to attend. CHANCE WILSON SUBMITS TO SURGERY AT PRAIRIE Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Ward received word Wednesday that Mrs. Ward's brother, Chance Wilson of Monu ment, submitted to a major opera tion Tuesday at a hospital in Prai rie City. Athough too early to de termine the ultimate outcome, it was. stated that he withstood the operation nicely and hope is held by the physician that he will- experi ence complete recovedy. Mr. Ward drove to Prairie City Friday to see Mr. Wilson who had been in the hospital two weeks pre paring for the operation. HOME NURSING CLASS STARTS AT BOARDMAN Opening of a home nursing class at Boardman Tuesday was an nounced this week by Mrs. Anne Thomas, county health nurse, who is in charge. Mrs. Thomas completed a course at lone the first of the week' at which time five women of the vi cinity were awardel certificates, including Mrs. Henry Smouse, Mrs. Nola Bristow, Mrs. Edith Nichol son, Mrs. Elmer Griffith and Mrs. M. E. Cotter. RECOVERING STRENGTH Mrs. Fred Parish, who recently underwent a serious operation in Pendleton, is able to be about once more. She has ventured up town a couple of times this week. r w o o -t