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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1943)
8 Heppner Gazette Times,. April 22, 1943 Early Day Editor Was Colorful Character, Writes Texas "Print" (Continued from last week) I stayed with Heppner newspapers to see interior towns devel op, cutting off of Heppners' trade territory by new railroads and changing of stage lines. I witnessed the passing of the colorful trail drivers, who came to Heppner each spring and with the melt ing of the snows headed east behind great bands of sheep to eat their way to Wyoming, Montana and Kansas pastures, and ultimately into the Chicago and Omaha packing houses. Many wonderful stories of those days lie dormant today, perhaps never to be written, which are as much the saga of the northwest as are the lives of the missionaries who pushed into the wilderness to press the white man's civilization upon a roving, happy people, then as free as the wild life upon which they survived. John W. (Watermelon) Reddington sold tthe Gazette to the Pattersons. Reddington , a colorful soldier of fortune and an Indian fighter of considerable note, passed his last days in the Soldiers' Home at Sawtelle, Calif. Heppner Blackman and I helped place him (our old boss) in the earth from which he came. There is much to be written about John W. Reddington. He was a wonderful American. He was fearless and honest. He loved the pioneers of Heppner, even to Cut Mouth Joe, the Indian, and he never quit talking about them. Reddington came back to Heppner in later years to acquire the Gazette. I became his foreman. Hep Blackman came in to learn the trade; however, Hep had spent some little time with me at lone , where I published, edited, printed and deviled the Post. Vawter sat me up in business when I attained the ripe age of 16. He sold the Post after a year's venturing his dollars and good reputation and I went to work for Reddington. Later I went over to the Times with E. M. Shutt. John Red dington delighted in taking verbal shots at his competitor on the "lower side of Stewart's livery stable." . Shutt was vain and Red dington jabbed him about "strutting." Finally, the goading drove Shutt to desperation. He laid in wait for Reddington, a much older man, and beat him up. Shutt felt his honor had been vindicated and Reddington didn't give a damn, so everything was peaceful. Reddington sold the paper to Warnock & Michel and soon I was back on the Gazette. In the years of service on the Gazette I worked with Jack Mills, as fast a printer as I have contacted to this day, and God knows I have contacted many of them; Sammy Teed, a queer little hunch back who loved his liquor far too well, and several tramps who dropped in for a square meal or two and a jag. But Vawter, Jack and I held the fort several years on the old Gazette. We saw it prosper and we saw it sink to unprofitable levels. There is nothing I would like better than to dig back into the ' files of the Gazette, if such there are, and retell those wonderful stories of the gay nineties. There are a lot of us old boys sticking around who were youngsters in those days youngsters who were rough and ready, but gentlemen toward their women folk, and who packed a lot of fun into a one-seated buggy almost any night when the weather permitted. Back at the turn of the century Heppner was a gay. little city. It was a substantial metropolis. Its newspapers were virile and its people ready for almost any sort of a lark. Don't get me started STAR Reporter Friday-Saturday, April 23-24 Walt Disney's Bambi The life and loves of a tiny fawn that lived in the great forest ... a "must see" and a real treat for old and young alike, in Technicolor. plus OUTLAWS OF PINE RIDGE Western story with Don Barry and Lynn Merrick. Sunday-Monday, April 25-26 The Hard Way Ida Lupino, Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson, Gladys George Fine dramatic entertainment for everyone. Tuesday, April 27 Johnny Doughboy Jane Withers, Baby Sandy, Bobby Breen, "Alfalfa" Switzcr. Butch and Buddy, Henry Wilcoxon, Spanky McFarlan The junior victory caravan goes to town for the army, featuring the youngster stars of yesterday. Wednesday-Thursday, April 28-29 Seven Days Leave Victor Mature, Lucille Ball, The Great Gilderslcevc, Freddy Mar tin and his Orchestra, Ginny Simms, Les Brown and his Orch estra, The Court of Missing Heirs and Truth or Consequences A happy blitz of laughs and ro mance! (Any mother with a son in the U. S. Army Air Corps excepted will be admitted free to see this feature upon presentation at the theater boxoffice of a snapshot of her son in uniform). RECOVERING FROM FLU Nels Justus is able to be on the street again after a severe tussle with the flu. Scout Fund Team Named at Dinner Final arrangements for the edu cational finance campaign for the Boy Scouts of America were made at a "kick-off dinner Thursday evening at the Lucas Place. As explained by Clifford J. Han son, assistant scout executive of Blue Mountain council, there is no set financial quota or goal to be reached by the Boy Scout drive. The funds are necessary to maintain Scout work in this and .11 other communities having troups, and it is important that the people of the community have an opportunity to learn of the benefits to our youth coming from this great organiza tion. J. O. Turner was named chair man of the local drive and a com mittee of 16 men was chosen to contact a list of people prepared in advance of the meeting. Sunrise Service, Cantata Scheduled Continued from First Page choral communion at 11 a. m. Sun day. At St. Patrick's Catholic church high mass will be observed at 10 a. m. Shnday with the combined lone and Heppner choirs joining in the singing. J. Fred Stilwell, pastor of the Cooperative Church of lone, an nounces special services, including fin Easter program in the Sunday school and an appropriate Easter sermon at 11 o'clock, with special music by the choir. HORSE TOSSES HEAD BREAKS RIDER'S NOSE Mrs. Vivian Kane suffered a bad ly fractured nose when a horse she was riding Sunday reared up, strik ing her in the face with the back of its head. Consequently, her face is terribly sore and is taped and bandaged. Mrs. Kane is a good horsewoman but the unexpected action of the horse caught her off guard, RETURN TO WORK County Treasurer L. W. Brigga and Deputy Sheriff , Neva Wells were back in their respective of fices at the court house Monday morning after enforced vacations due to sieges with influenza. VISITS THE DALLES Miss Effie Adrews, manager of the Heppner office of the Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph company, enjoyed a short vacation the past week which she spent vis iting relatives and friends in The Dalles. Farm War N BETTER RETURNS FOR WAR CROPS Higher support prices, which re place incentive payments for three crops, have been announced as fol lows: Dry edible peas. $5.65 for No. l's, $5.40 for No. 2's; dry beans, $6.50 for most varieties, except limas and kidneys, which will bring $7.50 per hundred; flaxseed, $2.85 per bushel. Incentive paymens will be made on potatoes and commer cial vegetables on the acreage be tween 90 and 110 per cent of the farm's goal. Payment rates for veg etables is $50 an acre; for potatoes, 50 cents a bushel on the normal yield. CRAWLER TRACTOR REPAIRS Manufacturers of crawler tractor parts have been directed to allocate 20 per cent of their production for essential civilian use, including ag riculture.. This should should re lieve the shortage caused by heavy military demands, but because of the large back -log of orders for parts, the effect of this regulation may not be felt for a month or so. WHEAT LOAN DEADLINE All warehouse-stored wheat loans expire on April 30. If wheat is not delivered cr loan redeemed before that date, farm storage loans will run another 12 months. TntES FOR TRACTORS Owners of steel-wheeled tractors may convert to rubber if they can show that the tractor must be mov ed over the road between farms, or that the tractor was purchased af ter May 1, 1942, and its use is ser iouly handicapped by the soil or topography on the farm on which it is operated. Tire certifications will be issued by OPA rationing boards to owners certified by the County OPA war board. Final Figures on Red Cross Released With all returns in, results of the recent Red Cross war fund cam paign show that Morrffw county citizens subscribed a total of $3410.37. This figure and district totals were submitted the first of the week by Bennie Howe, county chairman. According to Mr. Howe's tabula tions, district subscriptions were as follows: Boardman, $83.50; Cecil $90. 50; Hardman $87.25; lone, $954.30 Morgan $85; Irrigon $147.16; Lena and Pine City $97.50; Eight Mile and Gooseberry $316.50; Lexington $505.49; Heppner., $977.16; miscella neous donations $66, making a to tal of $3410.37. Morrow county's quota, $2100; oversubscribed $1310.37. A WORD OF THANKS Speaking in behalf of my com mittees and for myself, I wish to thank the people of Morrow county for their generous contributions to the American Red Cross war fund and I wish to commend the com mittee workers for their untiring efforts in making the campaign so completely succesJul. Bennie Howe, County Chairman. CLUB MEETS MONDAY Mrs. D. M. Ward will be hostess to the Past Matron's club at her home Monday evening. The meet ing opens at 8 o'clock. J? jsTEnrsS! 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