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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1945)
Merchants Asked To Close During Football Games Co-operation of Heppner business houses to make high school football games more successful financially is being sought by the school. Merch ants are being asked to close their doors during the game period, which usually runs from 2 to 4 o'clock, to permit employes to at tend the games and encourage cus tomers to do the same thing. Jack Parrish and Tom Hughes, members of the Mustang squad, ap peared .before the chamber of com merce luncheon group Monday and asked assistance in presenting the school's request to the business houses. The proposal was left in the hands of the merchants' com mittee. .The first game to be play ed on the home grid is set for 2 p. m. Friday, Oct. 5. Guests at Monday's luncheon were members of the x-ray unit, Clarence Bradford and Keith Gros- senbacher, technicians, and officials of the Morrow County Public Health association, Mrs. Claude Graham, president and Mrs. Oscar Rippee, secretary. RETURN TO HEPPNER After an absence of three years Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Crawford and son Jim have returned to make their home in Heppner. Mr. Craw ford has accepted the position of county AAA director and assumed his duties Monday morning. He fills the place left vacant when Ted of the Heppner branch of the Mor Smith resigned to become manager row County Grain Growers, Inc. MORE SOLDIERS HOME It is not the intention of this newspaper to overlook mention of returning soldiers but occasionally some of them have been home some time before the news staff learns of it. Two veterans of the Pacific war have recently returned home as civilians Sgt. Charles Mar ion Cox, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Claude Cox, and Sgt. Joe Gilleese, nephew of Mrs. Frank Monahan. Another returned soldier from the European theater is Sgt. Raymond Johnson, brother of Mrs. Paul Jones, who arrived at Pendleton Wednesday of last week. Lt. Jatik Forsythe ' has finally received his discharge from the Army Air Corps and returned, from Portland the first of the week. Mrs. Joe Hughes left Monday for Sacramento, Calif, to attend a re union of the Bassett family. She had intended to travel by bus to Klamath Falls and take a Southern Pacific train from there but central Oregon ,bus service was affected by the strike ' of bus drivers and she went from The Dalles by train. Hubert Gaily SK3c.is due home Saturday evening from his station in San Francisco on a 15 day leave with his wife. Mrs. Gaily was ex pressing doubt to this reporter this morning as to his being able to make it home as planned because of the bus strike now on, but we're putting our money on the Navy. Legion Auxiliary Installs Officers Installation of officers was the order of business at the Sept. 27 meeting of the American Legion auxiliary. During the business ses sion reports were given by Eugenia Biddle on her trip to Girls State camp in June and by Mrs. Dick Wells on the recent Victory con vention in Portland. Refreshments were served by the hostesses, Mrs. L. E. Dick, Mrs. Alva Jones and Mrs. Harry Tamblyn. Mrs.. E. O Ferguson, installing of ficer, inducted the following offi cers: Mrs C. P. Brown, president; Mrs. D. E. Hudson, first vice pres ident; Mrs. H. A. Cohn, second vice president; Mrs. Richard Wells, secretary-treasurer; Mrs. W. 0. Bay less, chaplain; Mrs. Alva Jones, his torian; Mrs .Earl Evans, sergeant at arms; Mrs. Loyal Parker, Mrs. E. O. Ferguson and Mrs. L. E. Dick, ex ecutive members. Chairmen of standing committees: Americanism Mrs. E. O. Ferguson; child welfare, Mrs. L. E. Dick; com munity service and music, Mrs. W. 0. Bayless; Girls' State, junior ac tivities, Mrs. E. H. Miller; hospital and rehabilitation, Mrs. Loyal Par ker; legislative, constitution and by laws, Mrs. H. A. Cohn; member ship and national news, Mrs. Frank Dcvidson; national defense and pan-America, Mrs. K. K. Blake; poppy, Mrs. E. L. Cox; publicity, Mrs. Richard Wells; memorial hall, Mrs. W. O. Bayless, Mrs. Loyal Parker and Mrs. Frank Hulbert. Heppner Gazette Times, October 4, 1945 5 Mrs. Anna Snyder and William Eastwood have gone to Reno, Nev., where they are to be married. Mrs. Snyder is the mother of John Han nan, owner of the local cleaning establishment and moved here last winter with the Hannans Mr. East wood is from Tule Lake, Calif., and was in Heppner helping in the har vest this summer. Mr. .and Mrs. Eastwood will make thier home at Tule Lake. Larry Mollahan is wearing his arm in a sling this week as the re sult of an accident on the school playground Monday. The arm was broken in the elbow and it was necessary to take Larry to Pendle ton on Tuesday to have it put in a cast. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Tucker and Mr. and Mrs. Ashenhurst of Stan field were visitors Wednesday at the Hynd and Mrs. Emma Ashen hurst homes. Mrs. Wm. Barkla, Mrs. Emma Evans, Mr and Mrs. Harley Ander son, Mrs. James Davis and Mrs. D. M. Ward were all in attendance at the grand chapter Order of Eastern Star when it convened in Portland Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 1 and 2. A small fire in the pump house at the Heppner Lumber company plant caused a little excitement Monday afternoon. A call was sent for the Heppner fire department and the truck was on the scene in short order, only to find that the equipment was not needed as mill hands had extinguished the blaze. Relatives have been informed that Joe Farley has been accepted for limited service in the U. S. army. He is situated at Ft. Lewis. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our apprecia tion to the people of Heppner and vicinity for their expressions of sympathy and for the lovely floral offerings. F. K. Paine : D. L. Paine and familjj I. C. 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