4 Heppner Gazette TimesJuly 29, 1943
Heppner Gazette Times
THE HEPPNER GAZETTE
Established March 30, 1883
THE HEPPNER TIMES
Established November 18, 1897
CONSOLIDATED FEBRUARY 15, 1912
. Published Every Thursday by
CRAWFORD PUBLISHING COMPANY
and entered at the Post Office at Heppner,
Oregon, as second-class matter.
O. G. CRAWFORD, Editor
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
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Two Years 4.50
Three Year? 6.00
Six Months 1.25
Three Months b5
Single Copies 05
well would suffer from an increase of rates at
this time. A means to avert this postal rate menace
and combat any moves in that direction is passage
of the Burch bill, (H. R. 2001) which provides
that all government departments and bureaus be
' required to pay postage on all mail they send out.
Active support of this bill would be in the interest
sound governmental accounting. .
of all mail users, the post office department, and
Big Money Not Everything
Teachers, as a rule, perform a work, of love in
guiding the young people placed in their charge
and willingly or not accept the responsibility for
training their charges in lieu of parental in
terest. For this work and responsibiity, few
if any, of them ever get more money than they are
entitled to receive. To attain a certificate to teach
they have had to study hard, pass up many of the
pleasures enjoyed by other young people and then
wrangle with school boards over salaries and
contracts.
Is it any wonder, then, that when positions are
open in other lines of endeavor which pay consid
erably more wages or salaries that teachers should
abandon their school work and go out and try to
gather in more of the worldly goods while the
gathering is good? It is hard to condemn them for
it, yet we wish they would not lose sight of the
fact that the big wages of the present may be of
short duration and that in the long run the finan
cial gain will be more or less disappointing.
No one knows how long the war will last. It may
run a year or several years. Whenever.it ends,
there will be a mad scramble for jobs. Those who
remain on the job throughout will be doing a pa
triotic service just as much as if right in the thick
of things, for the generation of young people of
today will be the leaders of tomorrow and now
more than ever it is essential to have well trained
leadership.
Teachers are needed here and everywhere. Sal
ary advances are being made to the limit possible
under school budgets. If you have a certificate
tucked away somewhere, get it out and dust it off
and march right up to the superintendent's office.
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The Threat Behind Free Mail
As far back as anyone can remember the post
office department has shown an operating loss at
the end of each year. And, on several occasions,
this ever present deficit has been projected by
some congressmen as argument in favor of in
creasing postal rates. Such a move threatens
again.
Through heightened efficiency and economy of
operation, the department in the last 10 years has
trimmed its annual deficit from 112 billion dollars
to only 14 millions. However, there is still a defi
cit and as long as it exists it is a potential lever
with which some legislators may try to raise postal
rates.
This deficit is due entirely to the free mail car
ried for the many government departments and
agencies. The volume of this mail has multiplied
five-fold in the last ten years. Last year the pos
tal department estimated that if this free mail had
been paid for, it would have brought 72 million
dollars into its coffers, wiping out the 14 million
dollar deficit and leaving a 58 milion dollar profit.
Thus it is clear that the way to turn the depart
ment's loss into gain and eliminate this threat to
rates is to revoke the free mailing privilege and
require the agencies to pay postage on all mail
they send out. ;
Business mail users and private individuals as
He Might Be Your Boy
Perhaps the service flag in your home means
that your own son is at some camp or station at
the other end of this great country; and maybe
you've heard from him within the last day or two
and know that he is safe and well. But forget that
comforting fact for a moment and imagine that
the youngster lying sick and lonely in the military
or naval hospital not far from your town is your
boy and not another's. Wouldn't you want to do
everything you could to give him the little com
forts that mean so much to a convalescent?
Of course you would! Somehow, you'd manage
to get into that hospital on every possible occasion.
You'd do all in your power to give him courage
and strength and a new interest in life, to keep his
mind so well occupied that he'd have no time to
feel neglected or unhappy. Heaven itself could
scarcely keep you away from him, if you knew he
was in need of certain small conveniences and
comfort articles that you could provide.
Then why not find a way to do for that other
plucky young patient in the nearby hospital the
same thing you would do for your boy? You can
do it through the program of your camp and hos
pital council. You'll be the better person for it
you'll know a kind of satisfaction you haven't
known before, especially if you bear in mind the
thought that in another part of the country some
other parent may be doing the same thing for your
boy, and feeling exactly the way you do about it.
Our goods are marked right in
the first place, making specials
unnecessary. Here are a few
proofs
Quart Fruit Jars Doz. 79c
9x12 Feltbase Congoleum Rugs
$3.98 and up
Davenos beige $69.95
wine $75.95
Baby Cribs $6.95 to $12.95
Unfinished Dinette Table, extra
leaf $7.29
Gamble Store Dealer
Conley Lanham, Owner
You Can Eat Your Points and Have
Them, Too!
Just drop in occasionally and have
one of our unexcelled Steak Dinners
and use the points saved to buy need
ed meats and fats for household use.
Elkhorn Restaurant
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Food On Every Hand
If doubts are entertained about the ability of
this nation of ours to feed itself and a large num
ber of other people besides, a trip around the
country will quickly remove them. There is but
one doubt that could persist and that is about the
ability of our remaining man- and woman-power
to harvest the crops and preserve them for con
sumption during ensuing months.
A drive through a portion of eastern Oregon the
past week-end convinces us that this region is self
sufficient and is doing its part to help win the vic
tory for democracy. By the time the timber line
was reached south of Hardman we had lost sight
tered a belt where "another essential industry is
of the vast grain fields of Morrow conty and en
doing its part the timber industry. Then one en
ters the John Day valley. Always a delightful drive,
this year that region presents more of interest,.
Evidently there is a potato project on in that val
ley. There were gardens all along the line gar
dens of wide variety of foodstuffs, all doing well
and giving that region an aspect of thrift that
would be discouraging to Hitler and Tojo. Then,
leaving the beautiful John Day at Prairie City, the
car once again roams into the mountains, over
Dixie mountain, down into the rolling, semi-arid
section of southern Baker county, then over the
hill and down into the Willow creek valley of
Malheur county. Hay, potato, beet and other crops
from'Brogan to Vale, from Vale to Ontario, from
Ontario to the end of the irrigation opposite
Weiser.
Upon reaching Baker one again finds potatoes
evidence on every side. Grain is the mainstay in
as a feature crop, although hay and grain were in
the Grande Ronde valley, too and of course our
neighbor, Umatilla, is doing its part in many lines.
Yes, the crops have been raised and if the major
ity of them are saved there will be plenty to eat
the coming winter.
Professional
Directory
. O. Peterson
Latest Jewelry and Gift Goods
Watches . Clocks - Diamond
Kxnert Watch and Jewelry
Repairing
Heppner. Oregon
Blaine E. Isom
All Kinds of
INSURANCE
Phone 723
Heppner, Ore.
A. D. McMurdo, M.D.
Trained Nurse Assistant
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Office In Mosonic Building
HEPPNER, ORE.
0. M. Y EAGER
CONTRACTOR & BUILDER
All kinds of carpenter work
Country work especially
Phone 1483
Dr. W. H. Rockwell
Naturopathic
Physician & Surgeon
227 North Main St.
Office hours: 1 p. m. to 7:30 p. m.
Exam free Ph. 522 Heppner, Or.
NEW AUTO POLICY
Bod. Inj. Pr. Dam.
Class A 6.25 5.05
Class B 6.00 5.25
Class C 7.75 515
F. W. TURNER & CO.
J. O. Turner
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Phone 17?
Hotel Heppner Building
Heppner, Oregon
CLEANING
Wednesday-Thursday-Friday
SERVICE
HEPPNER CLEANERS
Morrow Gounty
Abstract & Title Co.
INC.
ABSTRACTS OF TITXJi
titiiB rasrrmAHca
Office In New Peters Building
Phelps Funeral Home
Licensed Funeral Directors
Phone 1&2 . Heppner, Ore.
Dr. L. D. Tibbies
OSTEOPATHIC
Physician ft Surgeon
FIRST NATIONAL BANK BLDQ.
Rec. Phone 1182 Office Phone 492
HEPPNER, OREGON
GUET CI RELATIVES
Miss Betty J:an Robinson of
Berkeley, Calif. rp?nt the pest week
in Heppner, the guest of her grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Shan
non, and aunts, Mrs. T. J. Wells
and Mrs. D. E. Hi; ebon. Mr. and
Mrs. Hudson gave a dinner party
Wednesday evening in honor of
Miss Robinson attene by Mr. and
Mrs. Shannon, Mr. an Mrs. Hubert
Hudson and Mrs. Wells. Saturday
evening, Mrs. Wells entertained with
a picnic in the court house park
for her niece. Miss Robinson left
for Portland Sunday to spend a few
days with friends before returning
to her work in Berkeley.
RETURN FROM PORTLAND
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Hill returned
home Sunday after spending five
weeks in Portland for the benefit
of Mr. Hill's health. He feels some
what improved and expects to re
turn to the city at a later date for
further treatment.
Heppner City Council
Meets First Monday Each Month
Citizens having matters for dis
cussion, please bring before
the Council
J. O. TURNER, Mayor
Directors of
Funerals
M. L. CASE G. E. NIKANDER
862 Phones 262
Jos. J. Nys
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Peters Bail ding, - Willow Street
Heppner, Oregon
P. W. Mahoney
ATTORNEY AT LAW
GENERAL INSUBANCB
Heppner Hotel Building
Willow St Entrance