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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 20, 1945)
-0 O c: J -o to' n o r n 70 O H O U r . x z. c o v v H O O O '.a 70 70 m o . c: Pre-Flight Course May Be Available To Local Schools Civilian Air Patrol Has Plans to Train Standing Air Force Preliminary plans were laid here Tuesday for setting up a pre-flight training course in the schools of the county near the Lexington airport, namely lone, Lexington and Hepp ner. Such training is in line with the policy of the Civilian Air Pa trol, in conjunction with the army air force training command to train cadets for a peacetime standing air force. ' Here to discuss plans with Wal ter Ready and other members of the local unit of the CAP were Lt. Col. Leo G. Devaney, state director of the CAP, Major Arnold of the U. S. Army air training command and an assisting sergeant from the Portland airbase. High school stu dents and others interested will be provided with the facilities for training here at home. The officers informed the local unit that training facilities, equip ment, etc. will be made available here upon request. These planes P-38s and other types technical manuals and working mock-ups. The latter is a working model of an airplane engine set up in plastic covering so that students may see each part in action. Hangars and other buildings may .be secured from abandoned army airbases,' the army charging only for transportation and setting up costs. It may be possible to acquire such buildings at the Pendleton base or at Madras. Through arrangements with the town of Lexington, made when the new airport was projected, the CAP will be permitted to use part of the land acquired for the airport as a base for the unit's operations. Attend Funerals of Valley Relatives Mr. and Mrs. N. D. Bailey and son Cpl Nelson Bailey returned Mon day night from Albany and Port land where they were called by the deaths of Mr. Bailey's brother in law, William Shults, and his broth er, John Wesley Bailey, both of whom died Thursday. Mrs. Bailey and Nelson returned Thursday evening from Spokane where they spent a few days visiting Pfc and Mrs.. Francis Bailey at Ft. George Wright. Thy found a note on the table left by Mr. Bailey tell ing them he had been called to Al bany. Shortly after their arrival a call came from Portland telling of the sudden death of J. W. Bailey, They did not unpack their bags and set forth immediately for Albany where they attended the funeral of Mr. Shults and accompanied Mr Bailey to Portland to attend his brother's funeral there Monday. J. W. Bailey, N. D.'s youngest broth er dropped dead while at work Thursday morning. NO MORE CANNING SUGAR . Those people who failed to ac quire allotments prior to Sept. 15 will have to eat their fruit as is, for on that date permits for canning sugar ceased. The local board real izes this will cause disappointmnt to the "mean to" folks but due notice was given when there was yet time for everyone to get his or her supply and the matter is entire ly out of the hands of this office SPECIAL MEETING A special meeting of the Ameri can Legion auxiliary will be held at 8 o'clock p. m. Saturday, Sept. 29, at the hall in the Oddfellows build ing for the purpose of installing officers for the ensuing year. Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, September 20, 1945 The new mobile Chest X-Ray Survey Unit, built and equipped with Christmas Seal funds is now ready to travel to all parts of the State. The photo shows the workmen who built the trailer. The -overall size of the Unit is 38 feet long and 8 feet wide. It contains a Westinghouse X-Ray Unit in its own X-ray room, dressing rooms and a dark-room for developing the films. Mr and Mrs. A. A. Anderson will be in charge of the Unit and take the pictures. The Oregon Tuberculosis Association and the County Public Health Associations pay for the service out of Christmas Seal funds. Bishop Remington's 23 Years Service Drawing to Close Members and friends of All Saints Episcopal church gathered at the parish house Monday evening to enjoy a sumptuous dinner given in honor of Bishop and Mrs. William P. Remington. It was in the nature of a farewell inasmuch as the Rem ingtons will leave the eastern Ore gon diocese early in October and go to Philadelphia where Mr. Rem ington has accepted the post of suf fragan bishop. Dr. A. D. McMurdo expressed the appreciation of All Saints church for the great work done by Bishop and Mrs. Remington during their 23 years residence in eastern Ore gon and wished them continued suc cess and happiness in their new field. Mrs. R. B. Rice, president of the Women's auxiliary, presented Mrs. Remington with a gift from the women of the church to which she responded in her usual gracious manner. Evening prayer service was con ducted by Bishop Remington at which time he reviewed briefly his work in the diocese. As a token of appreciation the congregation sub scribed a substantial sum to the Bishop and Florence Remington en dowment, interest on which is used to augment salaries of missionary priests of the diocese. YOUNG PEOPLE OF COUNTY LEAVE FOR COLLEGE Seven Morrow county young people- left early in the week for Corvallis to enter Oregon State college. Included in the list were Joe Hughes, Ted Ferguson, Henry Rauch Jr., Don Evans, Margaret Krebs, Merlyn Kirk and Evelyn Kirk Bosworth. Mrs. Bosworth is registered nurse and will take a pre-medic course at the college. Her husband lost his life in the service about a year ago. Others leaving this week for Corvallis are Scott McMurdo, who has one more year of pre-medic, Marjorie Sims, Helen . Blake and Betty Adams of Heppner. Jean Turner, member of the Class of Heppner high school, arrived on the campus Monday, being left there by her parents, Mr. and Mr?,. Sam Turner. Loma Mae Jones will enter the University of Oregon this fall to take work in connection with her course at Northwest Christian col lege in Eugene. Marylou Ferguson will enter Whitman college next month and Betty Coxen goes to Eastern Oregon college at LaGrande. Joe Farley reported to Ft. Lewis for induction into the army. Few Arrests Made Here During Rodeo Rodeo crowds may be boisterous without being disorderly, and this was proved -in the recent Heppner three day show when the town was filled to overflowing with visitors. Of four arrests made during the period only two were for disorderly conduct. The others included a charge of obtaining money under false pretense and a highway acci dent. The fact that the Rodeo associa tion and the City of Heppner pro vided ample police protection pro bably retarded numerous outbreaks, but the history of the Rodeo as far as the police docket shows is that arrests are fewer then than on the average Saturday night, crowds considered. Health, Physical Ed Workshop to Be Held in Heppner All teachers in Morrow county will have an opportunity to attend a two-day health and physical education workshop next week when Miss Dorothy Moore and Harold Bishop, state supervisors of health and physical education will be in Heppner for that purpose. Lo cal arrangements are in charge of Mrs. Lucy Rodgers and George A. Corwin, county and city superin tendents, respectively. Assistance will be given the teachers concern ing the health and physical educa tion law which was passed by tha state legislature at its last session. The workshop will include prac tical demontrations of physical ed ucation activities in which the pu pils of the Heppner school will par ticipate. Explanations will be giv?i for the use of all health instruc tion materials and assistance will be given with prograam planning and scheduling problems. NEPHEW MISSING IN ACTION Relatives in Heppner have been informed that Clifford Vawter Jones son of Mr. .and Mrs. Leroy Jones of Montesano, Wash., has been missing in action since July 24. He was with the fleet off Tokyo bay at that time and was a mem ber of his ship's radar crew. Vaw ter was a nephew of Mrs. J. O. Turner, Mrs. R. B. Ferguson and Mrs. L. B. Schwarz. WHITE SPUDS OFF CONTROL As of Sept. 14, white flesh pota toes, at all levels of distribution in cluding retail, have been removed from price control until Oct. 26, according to information reaching the local OPA office Tuesday. Adults of County To H ave Benefit Of X-Ray Service The adult population of Morrow county will be given an opportu nity to find out if there is tubercu losis in our. midst when the Chest X-ray Survey unit of the Oregon Tuberculosis association comes here for a four day engagement. Ar rangements were made Tuesday of this week when Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar, executive secretary of the association, met with the Morrow County Public Health group. The local health group is urging all adults to avail themselves of this free service, funds for which are provided by the health associa tion through the sale of Christmas seals. Through this survey it is hop ed to locate the unknown cases of tuberculosis and this can be done only if the people cooperate 100 percent. The schedule set up for the mo bile unit calls for its appearance at Boardman Friday, Sept. 28, 10 to 12 a. m. and 1 to 4 p. m.; Heppner, 2 to 5 p. m. Saturday and 10 to 12 a. m. and 1 to 4 p. m. Monday, Oct. 1; lone 10 to 12 a. m. and 1 to 4 p. m. Tuesday. The x-ray unit can take 300 pictures each day and the health association hopes to make full use of its time. If you have not been contacted or received a letter, call Mrs. Oscar Rippee, Heppner; Mrs. Omar Rietmann, lone; Mrs. Or ville Cutsforth, Lexington; Mrs. Minnie Mciarland, tsoardman, or Miss Emma Crego, Irrigon. 4-H Club Fair to Be Held Saturday Four-H club members expect large attendance at their annual fair in the Oddfellows hall Satur day, Sept. 22. Exhibits from the va rious clubs will be on dispay by 10 o'clock Saturday morning. Mem bers from Boardman, lone, Lexing ton, Pine City, Hardman and Hep pner will have their work exhibited at the fair. Club members, parents, and friends will have pot-luck dinner at noon in the Oddfellows dining room. Afternoon program starts at 2 p. m. COURTHOUSE JANITOR ILL James Archer, courthouse janitor, is in St. Anthony's hospital, Pen dleton, and reports from there indi cate that he is in serious condition. Archer became ill Thursday of last week and was confined to his room. He later suffered a light stroke and his physician immediately secured a room for him at the hospital. Judge Johnson and Clerk Barlow took him to Pendleton Monday morning. Re ports indicate that he is not im proving. RETURNS TO HEPPNER Mrs. Frank C. Alfred and daugh ter Lee Ann returned to Heppner Friday to again take up residence here. Mrs. Alfred has been working in Tacoma since her husband has been in service. Capt. Alfred is still in China, or was a few weeks ago when this office received an inter esting letter from him. He sent greetings to his friends and stated that he wa9 becoming quite accus tomed to Chinese customs, particu larly those of the central part of that vast counry where he has been stationed so long. o ; EXTENSION LEADER HERE Charles W. Smith, assistant di rector of the extension service and Miss Frances Clinton, assistant home demontration leader, were Heppner visitors Wednesday. Smith, who recently recovered from a se rious illness, was in consultation with Arnold Ebert, Morrow county agricultural agent, while Miss Clin ton was going over the home de monstration program with Miss Grace Gadeken, new leader of that work in the county. Volume 62, Number 26 - Improvement of Lex Airport to. Be -Undertaken Soon Committee Seeks Funds for Putting Project in Shape A campaign to raise funds to be used in development of the Lexing ton airport has been opened and the entire county will be given an opportunity to contribute. Plans of the financial campaign and the de velopment program were outlined to the luncheon group of the Hep pner chamber of commece at the Monday meeting by Mayor Lonnie Henderson and Councilman Clif ford Yamell of Lexington. Mayor Henderson explained that the citizens of his town and imme diate vicinity have put up more than half of the purchase price of the land, 64.1 acres, but that they have gone about as far as they can without outside assistance. "We have come here today to try to in terest the people of Heppner in the airport we have started at Lexing ton," he stated. "We feel we are doing somehing in which the en tire county is interested and to tell you what has been been done and what we hope to do." An 1860 foot runway has been made. It runs east and west and there is room enough to expand it to 3000 feet. However, it is felt that if the original plans need to be expanded it will be necessary to ac quire more land and this should be done as soon as possible. Henderson reported that Jack Forsyfhe will be manager of the airport and will take over in about two weeks, or as soon as he re ceives his discharge from the U. S. army air force. He also pointed out that operation of the airport will eventually bring air mail and ex press service on a feeder line basis, a weather station, as well as train ing and charter flying services. Clifford Yamell spoke briefly on the financing, stating the need for a hangar, olfice building and sup plies as well as paying out the bal ance of $1600 due on the land. He estimated immdiate needs at $3000 which the airport committee ex pects to raise by popular subscrip tion. Frank Turner praised the Lex ington people for their initiative in starting the airport and said he felt that $3000 was an insignificant sum to raise. He pledged Heppner to raise a goodly share of that amount and has been prevailed upon to do the fund raising job here. B. C. Pinckney introduced his guest, Sid Smythe livestock spec ialist for the First National Bank of Portland. Dr. A. D. McMurdo presented his son Scott who spoke briefly on the navy, of which he was a member for 39 months and three days. Conley Lanham intro duced the Lexington guests. BACK IN STATES Two Morrow County boys were aboard the Queen Elizabeth when the great ship docked at an eastern port Wednesday, T5 Kenneth I. Hunt of Heppner and Pvt Lester L Cox of Lexington. A considerable number of Oregon men were among the passengers including soldiers from many sections of the state. NEW PARTS MAN C. G. Hasvold of Medical Lake, Wash., is the new parts man at the Braden Tractor and Equipment company plant in Heppner. With Mrs. Hasvold he arrived here Sept. 10 and they have been looking for living quarters since. VISITING IN OKLAHOMA Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Allstott of Hermiston have gone to Oklahoma on an extended visit. r w o o H -