-c o -3 to m o r - ' yo H O -r 7 o u v H O O O -x f-q O 28 Bummer XmtB News From The Boys at The Front GRADUATION DATE SEPT 26. Marion G. Krebs of Cecil Ore. was commisisoned a second lieu tenant in the Army Slept. 26 upon successfud completion of the offi er candidate course at the infan try school at Fort Bennnig, Ga. Lt. Krebs is the son of Mr. 'and Mrs. Georgp, C. Krebs of Cecil. . The new lieutenant enlisted in the army on March 29, 1943 and served with the ROTC at Oregon State college and took basic at Camp Roberts Calif, before going to Officer Candidate school four months ago. He held the rank of corporlal before being commis sioned. Hta is a graduate of Ar lington high school and attended Oregon State college for three years where he was a prominent member of Sigma Cli fraternity. ON WAY HOME . Mr. and Mrs. Glen Hayes were surprised Wednesday evening with a telephone call from their son T-4 Richard T. Hayes, who called from a California point. He stated that he would be home in less than nine duys, coming from Fort Lewis where he will receive his furlough orders. Rich, as he is fa miliarly known to the home folks, has been in the "down under" ter ritory for 30 months; going first to Australia and then on th New Guinea where he has been in com bat service the past 12 months. He told his parents that the good old USA sure looks good to him. DISCHARGED FROM SERVICE CPO Chester Brown was given a medical discharge from the Sea bees the past week and he and Mrs. Brown returned to Heppner Wed nesday from Pleasanton, Calif, where they have been living most of the past year. They plan to spend the winter near Monument for the benefit of Mr. Brown's health. Mrs. Browne's son, Frank Christensen, has signed up with the air corps which he will join upon completion of high school, Pete Christensen has been seeing plenty of action in the south Pacific Saipan and other recent battles. Major Chet Chris tensen has bden granted a leave and is expected home soon, and Duane Brown has been in the south Pacific over two years and partici pated in numerous major battles. MISSING IN ACTION Mrs. Mabel Davidson received a message from the war department Sunday stating that her son, Staff Sgt Herbert R. Davidson has been missing since Sept. 13 when he was engaged in a flight over Germany. Mrs. Davidson has not given up hope that Herbert is still alive, although possibly a prisoner of the Germans. SERVICE MEN ENTERTAINED WITH PARTY WEDNESDAY More than 50 young people gath ered at the parish house of All Saints Episcopal church Wednes day evening to honor service men home 'on leave or furlough. The party was sponsored by women of the church and invitations were extended to high school students and other young people of the town. , Dancing was enjoyed for a couple of hours, during which time light refreshments were served. BURKENBINE BOYS HOME Among the numerous service men on leave and on furlough this week are Reece and Merle Burken bine, sons of Mrs. A. E. Burkenbine. The boys have been together the last several days and feel Very for tunate, in being allowed to visit home together. Rainfall in 1944 Lags Behind Three. Previous Seasons Showers Few and Far Between, Rain Chart Discloses Jupfe Pluvius will have to give down regularly the next three months if he intends to put the year 1944 in a class with the years 1941, 1942 and 1943. He is behind schedule in Morrow county as of October 1 and although light show ers fell yesterday and during the night there is nothing to indicate that he will each up before the year wears away, unless Searching the records as kept by Len Gilliam it is found .that the first seven months of 1944 have gotten along with a precipitation of 5.49 inches. There was nothing recorded in August, and Gilliam's record for September has not been posted but may have been suffici ent to bring the record up to six inches. Recorded by months the figures stand: January .31; Febru ary 1.36; March .59; April 1.52; May .49 June 1.20 and July .02. Compared with previous years, this is not quite so good. Seven months of 1943, JanuJary-July, 7.50 inches; 1942, 8.70 inches and 1941 11.38 inches. September 1941 was the wettest month of the three-year period, registering 2.18 inches; 1942, .18, 1943 1.02. ' . 'These figures are for Heppner and vicinity. It is possible that V. L. Carlson can make a better show ing for the Gooseberry section, particularly since that region was visited by a heavy shower recently that amounted to nothing more than a trace in town. P-38 Makes Forced Landing Near lone Losing his bearings while flying over the north end pf the county late Monday, tlie pilot of a P-38 from Redmond airbase made - wheelless landing in Werner Riet mlann's stubble , field near lone. The pilot, an officer, was flying alone. , Although the pilot was uninjur ed, the plane was considerably damaged. Before, leaving for help the officer stripped the instrument board to remove any evidence of new gadgets that might be of use to the enemy. The P-38 will be taken back to the base, not for repairs but to be stripped for parts in repairing other planes. . .0 Scouts Collect Five Tons Waste Paper Five tons of waste paper were collected Saturday morning by Boy Scouts and their counsellors of Heppner and Lexington, accord ing to George Corwin, who drove the big truck used to haul the sal vage to Stanfield Saturday after noon. Five tons of paper were gathered in Heppner and one-half1 ton in Lexington. It took Corwin and four scouts two hours to unload the car go which was carried into the car on the siding at Stanfield. MRS. JAMES WILSON PASSES AT OAKLAND Relatives in Heppner have been informed of the death of Mrs. James Wilson at Oakland, Calif, Sept. 23. Her passing followed sev eral months' illness. She is survived by the husband, (and two children, a son in the marines and a daugh ter, by a former marriage, and one brother residing in Oakland. Mrs., Wilson spent two weeks here last summer with her husband. Heppner Oregon, Thursday, October 5, 1944. Morrow County 4-H Beef Show to Be Held Monday A. M. at Fair Pavilion Ten o'clock Monday morning is the time set for opening the Mor row county 4-H beef club show, which is to be held at the county fair pavilion. The show is being held as a pre-view to the Portland stock show to which point the 14 or so animals to be shown here will be tlaken late Monday afternoon. The showing at Portland spells fi nis to most of the animals as they are put on the auction block fol lowing the exhibition. The program for the day has been arranged as follows: 10 a. m., all livestock should be at the fair pavilion as the judging contest is scheduled to begin at that hour; 11 o'clock, showmanship contest; 1 p. m. judging of 'heifer classes, and 1:30 p. m., judging of steer classes, following which the animals will be loaded onto trucks for shipment to Portland. All beef animals that ustangs Lose to Honkers 7 to 0 in Opening Contest By LaVern Van Matter Jr In their opening football game of the 1944 season Heppner high school's Mustangs went down to defefat Friday afternoon 7 to 0, at the hands of the Arlington high school Honkers. Playing through intermittent showers on the Rodeo field before a moJerately - large opening day crowd, the two teams struggled through three scoreless quarters before a blocked Heppner punt in the last period provided Arlington with the break needed to score what proved to be the winning touchdown. The tfateful kick came after the Mustangs took over the ball on their own 20 yard line after an Ar lington punt rolled into the end zone. The Mustangs lost five yards on an end run then elected to kick on second down. Arlington's fast charging line swarmed through to block Ulrich's kick before he could get it away and an lalert Honker fell on the ball on the Heppner 12 yard line. In two plays Arlington scored. Using a T-formation offense that utj to this point had been held to short gains, the Honkers struck through the Heppner line on the first play to the 2 yard line. Weth erford, Arlington fullback, plunged over on the next play. The conver sion was also made on a line smash. With only minutes remaining in Continued on Page Eight Can You Spare A Typewriter? Over in McCaw General hos pital are numerous boys who are unable to write with pen cil or pen and ink. They have suffered injuries that have par alyzed hands or arms or other wise handicapped them so that correspondence by long-hand methods is out of the question. But they can, by employing the hunt and peck system, carry on correspondence by use of a typewriter. Those boys suffered their in juries by offering their servi ces in fighting off cruel ene mies who would conquer and destroy us. They would rather do their own letter writing and should be privileged to do so. Can we not add to our, splendid record in Morrow county by donating a portable typewriter or if one is not available, pro viding funds for the purchase of one? ished will be taken while trios1 are fat enough and. properly fin that are not good enough must be left at home for further feeding. Four classes will be judged. Class 1, Hereford steer, heavy; class 2, Hereford steer, light; class 3, Short horn steer, tand class 4, beef hei fer. Suitable prizes will be offered. Several club members and par ents will accompany the livestock to the Portland show which is be ing held for club members as a substitute for the Pacific Interna tional exposition, discontinued for the duration. Audrey and Patty Majeske, win ners in the home and garden ex hibits two weeks ago, will lake their display to Portland where it will be shown at the Meier and Frank company 4-H club fair put on in conjunction with the Port land stock show. REGISTRATION BOOKS CLOSE SATURDAY EVENING To accommodate late registrants, County Clerk C. W. Barlow an nounces that his office in the court house will remain open until 8 p. ni. Saturday, Oct. 7. The office opens at 8 a. , m. and the clerk urges those not registered to call &s early in the day as possible. Remember Saturday is the last djay to register before the fall elec tion. Be a good citizen register and vote! Hunters Get Into Difficulties Here Harry Neal' Browning of Herm(;s" ton paid a fine of $25 and costs when he appeared before Justice J. O. Hjager Monday morning and pled guilty to a charge possession of an illegal deer. The charge was preferred by Special' Officer Eldred L. Wright, who stated that the ani mal in question was minus the forked horns specified in the state game law. Ain Roscoe Boyd phid a fine of $5 and costs in the same court Mon day for driving a car without pro per operator's license. Boyd, a na tive of Missouri, is employed at (the Frank Wilkinson ranch. He went hunting Sunday and was picked up by the state police. Since he did not have an Oregon driver's license the law could have been applied to consider him an out-of-state hunter but the justice decided to invoke the automobile provision instead. Officer Wright is from Lincoln county and has boon assigned to this district as special game war den during the hunting season. NO BEAUTIES IN NEW GUINEA THAT HE'S SEEN If there are any bathing beauties or other types among the natives of New Guinea, he missed them dur ing his stay in the islands, Charles Cox told the chamber of commerce luncheon group Monday. He said there are Javanese, Melanest and other tribes of South Sea islanders in Guinea but none .of them have any special claim to beauty. Cox said he did not want to paint too bad a picture of the country, but he like all other ser vice men feels that if it were the land they were fighting for it would not be worth the battle. The main object with the fighting men is to run the Jais out and after that they don't care who takes over. o ON BOOT LEAVE Delmer O. Crawford has finished his boot training at Farragut and is spending his- leave with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Waite C. Craw ford at lone. Vol ume 61 , Number 28 Mayor and Council To Ask Return for Another Term Petitions Signed This Week to Place Names on Ballot City officers whose terms expire this year have tossed their collec tive tiles into the ring for another period of service. Petitions for Ma yor J. O. Turner, councilmen D. A. Wilson, L. D. Tibbies, L. E. Bisbee and Charles Vaughn, and Recorder . Huston and Treasurer Dix were circulated early this week, opening the campaign as far as city politics is concerned. So far no opposition has shown up and no interest has been manifested. Due to the invasion of the Blue mountains only one councilman was present at the regular monthly meeting of the council Monday evening. Councilman Ferguson and Mayor Turner sanctioned payment of bills and that was the extent of business transacted aside from in structions to Marshal Bill Morgan relative to complaints registered about keeping livestock within the city limits. Tbxt of the complaints indicated thjat the aroma accom panying the presence of livestock, rabbits, poultry and hogs is becom ing an extreme annoyance to neigh bors, who would like to have the city fathers do something about it. Mayor Turner reiterated his de sire to get a new well, stating that he is lanxious to have the city take up the offer made by A. M. Ed wards last spring to drill for wa ter on the Birratf property above the Frank Monahan residence. Tests made in the spring indicated that a well at that point would bling in around 200,000 gallons daily, lhat amount added to pres ent "supplies would guarantee a plentiful supply for the present population and take dare of pos sible growth. Study of School Support Measure Asked by Speaker Hope that voters will study the school supeport measure so they may vote intelligently on the con stitutional amendment on the No vember ballot was expressed Mon day by Dr. Ray Hawk to members of the luncheon group of the Hepp ner chamber of commerce. Dr. Hawk, who was representing the Oregon State Teachers' association, is visiting eastern Oregon counties in the interest of the amendment and made several talks in the coun ty the first of the week. "I have no doubt about the out come of the measure if the voters will study it thoroughly and have a complete understanding of its aims and purposes," Hawk stated. He pointed out that Oregon is be hind other Pacific coast states in the matter of support, calling at tention to the fact that the state land law is still in effect but that there is no state land left to speak of. The proposed constitutional amendment will not necessarily create an additional burden on the tax payltr but will make for a bet ter distribution of funds in which the public schools will enjoy a more bountiful share. He also add ed that while teachers are support ing the amendment it is not with expectation that they will directly benefit any more than that a sta biization of school funds should tend to create a corresponding stabilization of jobs and salaries. Frank Hulbert, a guest, spoke briefly urging support for the measure. These are days of special ized jobs, he said, and every op portunity should be given the youth of today to prepare for these jobs. O o m