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A Heppner Gazette Times, March 30, 1944 Established tvtk. tthppncr OA 7T7ITE Established March 30. 1883. THE HE PPNER TIMES H November 18. 1897. Consolidated February 15. 1912. p Published every Thursday and entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as 2nd-class matter. O. G. CRAWFORD,Publisher and Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $2.50; Six Months $1.25. Professional Directory Eastern Oregon's Senior Papers Oregon Magazine, published monthly at Salem by Murray Wade, contained some interesting in formation relative to Eastern Oregon newspapers in its March issue which is worthy of repeating for the benefit of Gazette Times readers, especially since this issue marks the 61st anniversary of this newspaper. Editor Wade was commenting on the election of Charles D. Wheeler, editor of the Mil- SOLDIEKS VOTE FIRST Were William Allen White alive today he might be writing a book entitled, "Whafs the Matter With Congress?" After months of political tise the newspaper to rural prospects by painting signs on the board fences and buildings. If he started it his successors carried on the enterprise jockeying congress passed the sol with an ever-widening sphere, for it was true the f ballof act, which for r screwball perfection is a runner-up Gazettte was known far and wide in the days of for the income tax bill muddle. This its youth. act would require the voter to write in the name of the candidate of his choice but only for president and Still GoinQ Strong the congress. The ballot would have Complete returns on the Red Cross war fund no Printed list of candidates. A sol- ton Eagle, to the presidency of the Milton Uiam- campaign are lacKing ana it may De jumping tne had receiVed the political news J. 0. Peterson La teat Jewelry and Gift Goods Watches Clock . Diamond Expert Watch and Jewelry Repairing Heppner, Oregon Blaine E. Isom All Kinds of INSURANCE Phone 723 Heppner, Ore. ber of Commerce, and adding that the Eagle' re cently observed its 55th anniversary. Quoting Ore gon Magazine: "The oldest weekly in Eastern Oregon is W. Glen Chandler's Blue Mountain Eagle (John Day and Canyon City). Others in order are: The Wes ton Leader, edited by Clark Wood; The Lake view Examiner published by Glen S. Charles; The Heppner Gazette Times, published by O. G. Crawford; The Fossil Journal, edited by H. J. Sim mons; the Prineville Central Oregonian, edited by Remey M. Cox, and the Burns Times-Herald, ed ited by Julian Byrd and Douglas Malarkey. "Some sixty years ago the Heppner Gazette was the best advertised and most talked-of weeky in the west. In those days roadside fences, barns and bridge railings "were natural billboards for local merchants, national advertisers and others. The two most familiar roadside signs read "Use Wiz ard Oil" and "The Heppner Gazette Never Sucks Eggs." The Gazette signs were scattered all over Oregon and parts of California, Washington, Idaho and Montana." There is no authority established as to who was responsible for the Gazette slogan. This writer re members when coming to Heppner in 1901 some of the signs were in evidence as stated by Mr. Wade, some of them known to have been the ef forts of the enterprising "Patterson brothers. The one referred to in Oregon Magazine smacks of the militant John Watermelon Reddington, although to credit him with it may be doing an injustice. When the Gazette was started there was no railroad into Heppner and most of the freight came overland from Arlington and Umatilla. This is attested to by shipping directions on some of the type cases ordered by Mr. Stein which were ship ped from SanFrancisco to Heppner via Umatilla Landing. There they were loaded onto one of Hen ry Heppner's freight wagons and delivered to the fledgling Gazette. Telephones had not yet come into use in this area and only when the railroad came was there telegraphic communication with the outside world. People of the outlying districts, very few at that time, drove to town to get their mail. Perhaps Stein found it convenient to adver- gun to state that the quo has been met, with a from home would have to rely on considerable margin to spare. Just how much that memory of what was doing po , , ... , , , ., litically when he left. Under such margin amounts to will not be made known until conditions it would not be surpris. a complete check-up has been made and we haz- ing if the late U. S. Senator Charles ard the assertion that most of us will be surprised L.McNary should get a majority of as well as gratified. ovnor Earl Snell is determin- - Fund drives have become so commonplace that ed that voters outside the United there is nothing left of the glamor that was at- states aWe to cast vote . , , ,. , . . , , at the coming election and that they tached to the earlier drives. Our people have ac- have Mmes of cand cepted war financing as part of their regular bus- dates before them on a regularly iness and now go about the job in a systematic printed ballot, just as it would be u uiey were voting in uieir nome 0. M. YEAGER CONTRACTOR & BUILDER All kinds of carpenter work Country work especially Phone 1483 NEW AUTO POLICY Bod. Inj. Pr. Dam. Class A 6.2S 5.05 Class B 6.00 5.25 Class C 7.75 5.25 F. W. TURNER & CO. precinct. The governor vows this plan will be carried out even if its accom plishment means calling a special session of the legislature. manner. It is not a matter of how much can be gotten along with, but how much is needed and when that is made known the money is subscribed. Returns on the national campaign have not yet been made available to the press or public but it OREGON LAW MAZE is safe to guess that when the money is all ac- Oregon is far behind other states counted for. the $200,000,000 quota will be gener- 'm revismS its laws, says Kenneth .... , J. CConnell, associate professor of ously oversubscribed. v law at University 0f Oregon. Morrow county has a record in the war financ- "Oregon laws are now an unsys- ing program to be proud of. It is true that we have tematic accumulation of statute t . . , . ... upon statute from the earliest en- not taken many first places in recent months, M mm present,, says Q, yielding that position to other counties, yet when Connell and points out that legis- returns are m it is usually found that we are near lation springs rrom the ambiguities the top. The knowledge that we are doing a good job brings a feeling of satisfaction which di rects us away from the path of smugness. ' O Phelps Funeral Home Licensed Funeral Directors Phone 1332 Heppner, Ore. Heppner City Council Meets First Monday Each Month Citizens having matters for dis cussion, please bring before the Council. . J. O. TURNER, Mayor and confusions of the present form. He suggests the appointment of a reviser of statutes on lull time. BRICKER COMING Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio will come into Oregon April 13 on a scouting tour to appraise Anyone Know One? One red ration point will be given the person his chances of getting support from who can prove to this newspaper that he has, or delegates to the Republican national . . , , ,. , , convention. 'B.ioker's name will knows of someone who has, been polled by one not appear on 0regon primary of these "straws in the wind" institutes of opinion ballot but he considers his chances says Jim Van Winkle, editor of the Oregon City gd should a deadlock occur at the D r . convention. Banner-Courier. nr . i u'u :u FEWTR DEFERMENTS We strongly suspect that the politician with the gtate .. Serviee Director greatest pull or the organization with the deepest Elmer V. Wooten hes instructed pocket can get poll results tailored to suit their Oregon's 57 local draft boards to call ior pre-induetion physical ex aminations all registrants under 26 years of age who are currently in class 2-A or 2tB, provided they have not been physically examined uritViin tVip mast. 90 rlavs This rvrnce- pies of public opinion." We think you are right, dure win. review younger men first. Jim, but we once met a fellow who had seen a Only those classed as extremely ne- fellow who claimed he knew of another guy who had been interviewed by a straw vote collector. Jos. J. Nys ATTORNEY AT LAW Peters Building, WUlow Street Heppner. Oregon A. D. McMurdo, M.D. Trained Name Aiilitant PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Office In Masonic Building HEPPNER, ORE. fancies," the editorial continues. "All this business about percentages of prefer ences for this candidate, or that one, this party or the other, certainly cannot stem from true sam- Dr. W. H. Rockwell Naturopathic Physician & Surgeor 227 North Main St. Office hours: 1 p. m. to 7:30 p. m. Exam free Ph. 522 Heppner, Or. New Regulations For Gas Use Cited Latest regulations affecting gaso line usage were received at the lo cal rationing office this week and include the following: Effective April 1, 1944. the fol lowing coupons and acknowledge ments will become invalid for transfers of gasoline: Brownie Scouts Get Down to Business The Brownie Scouts, junior order School Principals Hold Meeting Friday Supt. George Corwin of the Hep- nessaiy for war work or industries will be deferred. The new order will effect less than 5000 men in Oregon, more than 50 percent of these in the lumber industry, second lar gest group in transportation and third in shipyards. STATE PAYS KEEP Parents of boys and girls in the state training schools no longer will J. O. Turner ATTORNEY AT LAW Phone 17? Hotel Heppner Building Heppner, Oregon of Girl Scouts recently organized pner schools was host Friday to the jave to pay the state for taking care here, met Wednesday afternoon at principals of the county at a meet- of their children. Attorney general the school house and arranged a ing held at the local school. Neuner ruled the state board of program of regular work. Thirty- Qn e program were Austin control has no authority to collect two girls were present as were the superintendent of the such payments. Only a few parents troop leaders, Mrs. E. O. Ferguson have been making payments. A and Mrs. Harold Cohn, and a troop Pendleton schools and John Miller, ig43 , 0vidinc for navments for L "B" and "B-l"' coupons issued mother, Mrs. Harold Peck. The superintendent of the training care of children in institutions ap on Form OPA R-527Bi and 527C story of "The Brownie" was read and sdhool at Eastern Oregon College plies only to privately owned state and "C" and "C-l'' coupons issued games were played. ' of Education, La Grande. tided institutions and not to state on Form OPA R-528B and R-528-C. Brownie project for April will be r..,, ' nUck tL i.,. owned insitutions. Neuner ruled. 2. "Strip T" coupons which do not making bean bags. Each girl is to . Jjanaxeui spoKe on me legisia CApiTAL SIIORXS bear the designation "2nd Qtr.". bring a piece of cloth 7x15 inches Uve rgram OS011 state Easter sunrise services will be 3. "E" and "R" coupons issued and a needle to the next meeting, Teachers association, stressing pe'- conducted in the sunken gardens on Morrow County Abstract & Title Co. INC. ABSTRACTS OP TITLB TITLE INSURANCE Office In New Peters Building Dr. L. D. Tibbies OSTEOPATHIC Physician ffotfaoa FIRST NATION AX, BANK BlJX Rec. Phcae IMS Offte Fbon 193 fMSPPNER. OREGON on Form OPA R-530, R-530A, April 5. R-531 and R-531A. April 12 has been set as the dead- These are the coupons issued be- une for national dues, which are fore the simplified forms and bear 50 cents a year, and 10 cents for a Jie words "Permits delivery of one Brownie pin. Mothers are urged nm" oacnlino TVio p.vhvr to set the dues in to Mrs. Cohn and R-531B are not affected. or Mrs- Ferguson early. After April high school graduates, urging, them les L. McNary. manent state support of public the capitol grounds . . . State Scn :il".i3cIe. He also uircred a retirement ator Frederick S. Lamport of Sa- and tenure fund for teachers on his own initiative. Miller direcfjed! his remarks lem has been named by Governor Earl Snell as treasurer of voluntar ily donated funds to provide a pro to trait of the late U. S. Senator Char- The painting will Directors of Funerals M. L. CASE G. E. NTKANDER 862 Phones 262 12 membership will be limited to to consider enrolling for teacher nanS m me senate cnamoer in The local ofkee has been re- 34 A wam fee k for Washington, D. C. . . . State police quested to advise all gasoline dis- , iraiimi6' recovered stolen motor vehicles tributors in this "area of the forego- age group, 8-10, who Refreshments were prepared and valued at mm pastVemoCnth ing invalidations and the dates for may join only when there is a served by the home economics , . , stores selling Easter lilies and surrender. vacancy. ciass Q - Ae nigh school. Continued on Fage Fire P. W. Mahoney ATTORNEY AT LAW GENERAL I&S USANCE Heppner Hotel Building Willow St. Entrance