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World Conflict Ends as Japs Accept Terms
Postwar Problems,
Federal Affairs
luncheon Topic
Pendleton Mayor,
Congressman Talk
Here Monday Noon
While conclusion of the war is
uppermost in the minds of our
people, next in line is the problem
of reconversion, of making jobs for
the millions who find themselves
without employment when wartime
industry comes to an end, Mayor
Sprague Carter of Pendleton said in
effect to the luncheon group of the
chamber of commerce at the Lucas
Place Monday noon.
Finding jobs for our seturning
service men is a problem for each
community and should be accepted
and acted upon, he stated. Recon
version of these men from total re
gimentation to a life of liberty as
enjoyed under a democraev nHIl
take time, he thouht and may not
be an easy task at least not a
short task. We will have to provide
ri e win nave to encourage
the younger men to complete their
education, and in other wavs con
tribute .toward reestablishing them
in normal ways of living.
Accompanying Mayor Carter to
Heppner was Congressman Lowell
Stockman who answered some que
ries that have been rmdi raf nor
frequently since he returned from
Washington. He made answer to
4llA If 1 1t ,t
" Mueauua wnen wm tne war
end?" brieflv. "A
knows no more about the war. when
it will end, than the average citi
2en. Your guess is as good as mino "
He termed the OPA the $64 ques
tion and took some time to discuss
this phase of wartime life. "From
the time America entered the war,"
he said, "I felt that price regula
tion was needed. I favored the OPA
s an emergency measure that
v..ununuea on rage Elgin
.
Death Summons
Mrs. M. L. Case
Memorial services were held
i:oU o clock p. m. Tuesday at the
Methodist church for Winifred
i ranees Case, 69, whose death oc
curred Sunday at the familv resi.
dence on Gale street. Rev. Fletcher
Forster was in charge of the ser
vice. The body lay in state at the
A r i t ,,
icMuuiice iouowing tne service
where sorrowing friends raid t.hpir
last respects to one who had long
been a member of the community.
Interment was made in the family
plot in the Masonic cemetery at 7
o'clock Tuesday evening.
Winifred Frances Stafford was
born June 30, 1876 in Linn county
and spent her entire life in Oregon.
She was the daughter of Bethel
Allen and Mary Jane Thompson
Stafford, whose parents crossed the
plains in the early '50's. Her girl
hood was spent in Albany and
vicinity and she attended Portland
university after finishing high
school. On Aug. 7, 1901, she was
married to M. L. Case of Albany
in a double wedding ceremony
that saw her sister Grace and fi
ance as the other members. After
two years at Albany Mr. and Mrs.
Case moved to Ashland where he
conducted a furniture and under
taking business for five years. On
the advice of their physician they
sold their interests there and in
November 190S came to Heppner
and engaged in the same line of
business. Mrs. Case assisted in the
store until the state of her health
would no longer permit such ac
tivity. She was a lover of the beau
tiful things in nature and skillfully
portrayed that love in needle work
and oil paintings. She was a life
long member o f the Methodist
church.
Surviving besides the husband are
four children. Allen of Portland,
Harold of Clatskanie, Mary Nikan
der of Heppner, and Winifred Case
Evans, Portland. Two boys, Lau
rence and Leon, preceded the mo
ther to the grave.
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, August 16, 1945
Lena Attendant
Dance Scheduled
Saturday Evening
As they say in announcing elec
tion returns, "incomplete ' returns
indicate so-and-so has been elect
ed", it is pertinent to remark that
at least unofficial reports would
lead one to believe that the Wil
lows grange dance at lone Satur
day evening won the leather col
lar button or something of that or
der as far as attendance and in
terest are calculated. Figures have
not been submitted to prove that
it was a larger crowd than attend
ed previous Rodeo dances but from
information at hand it would seem
that any more cash customers would
have been supremely suDerfluoua.
The terpsichorean scene shifts to
Heppner this week when the Ro
deo association dance in behalf of
the Lena attendant. Paula Marie.
Hisler, will be held at the Fair pa
vilion. The lone orchestra will pro
vide the rhythmical inspiration and
there will be a refreshment stand
operated by the C A P. Pre-Rodeo
.dance prices will prevail.
OPA NEWS BRIEFS
The local office of OPA announ
ces the community ceiling price
list effective Aug. 9, 1945 for this
area will be in effect for another
week according to word from the
area office.
Sugar applications for home can
ning will be accepted and held for
processing at a later . date when
canning sugar is again released.
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tion had in. mind a real cowgirl, and in Colleen Kilkenny they frund one
whose experience in the saddle has been neither show stuff nor dude
ranch activities.
This smiling Irish "colleen" was born on a big stock ranch 10 miles
east of Heppner two years after the first Heppner Rodeo. (By her con
sent we are privileged to say that the date was Oct. 13, 1 924).
At the mature age of three she began riding horses and has been at it ever
since. She has ridden in cattle round-ups, wrangled the stock on the ranch,
helped with hayfield operations, stock branding, care of sheep in fact,
any activity such as is to be found on a big ranch like the Kilkenny hold
ings and between times she has broken four saddle horses without the
aid of mere man.
Colleen's first showmanship was in 1931 when she was junior queen
at the Pendleton Round-up. She was princess at the 1941 Hejppner Rodeo.
Although her mother's right-hand man since her tender years, she found
time for her schooling and graduated from Heppner high school with the
class ef 1943.
Electric Storm
Starts Numerous
Fires in Forest
An unknown number of fires
broke out in the Heppner forest
when a severe electric storm
spdead over the territory lying be
tween Five-mile creek and Jeri
cho, the Heppner ranger's office
reported Monday. Because of the
widespread range of the storm and
difficult terrain it was necessary to
send for a patrol plane to scout
the area, but this method also had
its 'drawbacks inasmuch as obser
vers in the plane could not readily
estimate the size of burns passed
over.
The forest office reported that the
fires ranged in size from one stump
up to 12 acres.
A report reached town Tueday
evening that an electric storm ac
companied by heavy rain passed
over about the same area as Sun
day's storm and that streams were
considerably swollen with the down
pour.
FATHER UNABLE TO
ATTEND CfflLD'S FUNERAL
Funeral services for Rita Ann
Weitzel, 22-months-old daughter of
Pfc and Mrs. Elmer Weitzel, were
held Saturday at The Dalles, fol
lowed with interment in Portland.
The father, with the American for
ces in Europe, cabled that he could
not attend. The child died July 31.
Rita Ann was a niece of Tress
McClintock. who with his family
attended the services.
Heppner Rodeo
Rodeo, the directors -of the associa
People Receive News Without
Undue Display of Emotion. Special
Service Held Wednesday Afternoon
A war-weary world, hourly expecting news of the surrender of
Japan, broke into joyous celebration Tuesday afternoon when news was
flashed from Washington that the enemy had accepted terms laid down
by the .Potsdam conference. President Truman himself went on the air
at 4 p. m. PWT. and told the nation that war had ceased.
Celebration as generally accepted is not the word so far as Hejppner
and many other inland towns are concerned. People here took the news
calmly and there was no inclination to organize a noisy demonstration.
' J Plans called for closing of business
Un.. - 1 -te .1 i ,
Chemurgy Offers
Postwar Market
For Surplus Wheat
Dextrose Product
SeeiVas Outlet
In This Section
With the second world war now
history, grain growers of the Pa
cific northwest are confronted with
the problem of surplus wheat in
years to come. That time may not
be far distant, once the war-ridden
countries are supplied, and it
will be up to producers to solve or
help solve the domestic market sit
uation so that not enough surplus
grain will accumulate to material
ly affect prices.
Evidence that grain growers and
business men of the northwest have
not been idle on the surplus prob
lem during the war is found in the
establishment of the Northwest
Chemurgy Co-Operative at Wenat-
chee, Wash. Some of the purposes
of this concern were told to this
newspaper Sunday upon the visit
here of Elmer McClure. state
grange overseer, who was accom
panied by Ronald Smith. reDrespnt.
Ung Northwest Chemurgy and Har
ry Van Waveren, salesman for the
organization.
Wheat chemurgy offers wheat
farmers the best prospect for a
steady post-war market. The pro
duction of glucose or dextrose from
wheat will take the unsaleable sur
plus here into an entirely new
held, where it does not have to
compete with ordinary wheat pro
ducts," he stated.
Northwest Chemurgy has se
lected The Dalles as the site for a
dextrose plant and a meeting will
be held at 8:30 p. m. Tuesday, Aug.
21 which will be open to all farm
ers and friends from this section.
Plans for the new plant and its
operation will be explained at this
meeting. The Dalles was chosen be
cause of the cheap electric power
expected to be made available, the
rail and highway connections, and
river transport and the rich wheat
hinterland.
"Developments are coming fast
er than many of us realize," Ron
ald Smith said. "Chpmurrrv itsplf
is as timeless as nature and life
itself, and appeared with the first
blade of grass. But the application
of this science to agricultural pro
ducts is new to the Pacific North
west, having begun when a Polish
refugee landed in Vancouver B. C,
bringing with him from Poland a
process which we have rnproed
with American industrial melhols.
sored originally by the Washington
"We are a co-operative, spon
state grange, because private capi
tal, although offered the process
first, was fearful of obtaining a
steady supply of wheat to process.
By farmer membership, we are as
sured this supply from our
members."
The McClure party called on
several farmers in this vicinity to
interest them in chemurgy and to
invite them to the meeting in The
Dalles. They also left a sample of
their product with the G-T and one
of these days it is expected the
cook will try it out in baked goods
of some type. Bakers and candy
makers have used dextrose made
from corn and find the wheat pro
duct more satisfactory because it
is entirely free from oils and pro
teins.
Volume 62, Number 21
uuuses ami oii ices ior uie Balance
of the day if the news broke in
the forenoon and closing the follow
ing day if the story broke in the
afternoon. A long blast of the fire
siren was the signal that war had
ended.
Mayor Turner asked for and was
given unqualified cooperation in
the matter of closing. The liquor
store closed immediately with the
announcement and beer was not
dispensed Wednesday, aall of which
tended to keep down noisy dem
onstrations. Wednesday afternoon some 200
people gathered at the school gym
nasium to participate in a peace
program arranged by Mayor Tur
ner. Speakers included Rev. Flet
cher Forster of the Methodist
church; O. Wendell Herbison of the
Church of Christ; Judge Bert John
son; Frank Hulbert of the Ameri
can Legion, and Lt. Jack Forsythe
of the U. S. Army Air Corps. Rev.
Clifford Noble of the Assembly of
God church offered the opening
prayer. Mrs. J. O. Turner presided
at the piano, opening the program
with a group of patriotic numbers
and well known hymns, and ac
companied Mrs. C. C. Dunham who
sang Melotte's "The Lord's Prayer"
and Mrs. Ture Peterson who sang
Kipling's "Recessional." The min
isters made strong points relative
to the presence of God in support
of the Allied cause in putting down
the would-be destroyers of civili
zation and asked his continued
guidance in framing a permanent
peace. Judge Johnson took as his
subject "What GI Joe Wants When
He Comes Home." There was much
editorial material in his talk that
will be used later. Mr. Hulbert
briefly reviewed the American Le
gion's position and program rela
tive to postwar work among the
veterans. Lt. Forsythe summed up
a long speech with his few short
sentences. Outstanding point was
his statement that his first reac
tion to the peace news was the re
alization that now there is a to
morrow, for him and all the others
in the service, and for those people
who have 'been held in subjection
by the enemy.
ROOMS NEEDED FOR
VISITORS TO KODEO
i An unprecedented attendance is
expected at the 1!) 15 Rodeo and
, the question of rooms is bother
ing the association. If you have a
spare room won't you please list
it at the office of Turner, Van
Mailer & Co. right away? Call
at the office or phone in.
i Full particulars about rooms
and meals will be obtainable af
ter (he meeting of the association
directors in Ueppner at 7 o'clock
Suliir.l.iy evening.
Consolidation of
Districts Effected
Consolidation of three more
school districts has been effected
recently, states Mrs. Lucy Rodgers.
county superintendent. School dis
trict No. 52, Social Ridge has been
consolidated with district 12, Lex
ingon. Districts 18 and 20, Straw
berry and Hodsdon, are joinedwith
number 23, Devine district.
These consolidations are in line
with policy followed in other coun
ties of the state and have been
made possible by the law passed
by the 1939 legislature designed to
speed up school mergers. Progress
has been slow or was slow, until
gasoline and tires became scarce.
Scarcity of building materials also
has had some bearing upon the
changed attitude toward central
ized school management
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