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Early Settler of
lone Section Dies
At Hood River
Mrs. Rietmann Was
True Pioneer of
Wheat Belt Area
Funeral servces were held this
afternoon at lone for Mrs. Mar
garet Rietmann, widow of the late
Paul Rietmann, who passed away
Monday at Hood River where she
liad made her home the past sever
al years. The services were held at
the Co-operative Church of lone,
with Dr. Huntington of Salem of
ficiating and the Phelps Funeral
Home in charge of arrangements.
Interment was in the lone I. O. O.
F. cemetery
Margaret Glock Rietmann, one
of the oldest pioneers of the lone
section, was born in Highland, Hi.,
Feb. 20, 1861. Shortly after their
marriage she and Mr. Rietmann
came west, in 1880, and worked for
awhile for a family named Riffle
at Walla Walla. They were per
suaded to come to the lone vicinity,
which was just opening up, and
there was no town of lone, and take
up a homestead. They followed
this advice and in 1882 selected a
site a few miles north of lone. They
chose this site because of a spring
of water but when the ground was
plowed the spring disappeared and
they had to resort to hauling their
water supply as was the custom
with many homesteaders of the re
gion. Morrow county had not been
created and early settlers had to
trek to Pendleton to conduct coun-,
ty business. At that particular time
Arlington was the most convenient
trading point for the homesteaders,
so occasional trips were made to
the river town to haul in supplies.
Mr. Rietmann preceded his wife
in death, passing away in 1928.
Deceased is survived by eight
sons and two daughters Edward
Rietmann, Condon; Walter, Otto,
Werner, Omar, Victor and David,
lone; Robert, Fullerton, Calif; Alice
(Mrs. Victor Peterson,) The Dalles,
and Mrs. Anna Stith of Meridian,
Ida.
Mrs. Rietmann was 84 years, 11
months and six days of age.
Speech Festival
Scheduled March 22
At Boardman School
Morrow county unit of Oregon
State Teachers association meeting
at lone Monday evening scheduled
a county speech festival to be held
March 22 at the Boardman school.
Both high school and grade stu
dents will participate. At the same
time it was decided to hold a spell
ing contest for the four upper
grades of the schools and this will
be held April 10 at Lexington.
There will be no music festival this
year, but the idea is not abandoned.
The meeting was held at the lone
school where an excellent dinner
was enjoyed. A moving picture,
"Assignment Tomorrow," empha
sizing teaching as a profession, was
shown. This was followed with a
business session at which time
commttees recommended the above
activities.
All teachers of the county are
being urged to attend the annual
convention of OSTA on March
28-30 in Portland. State Supt. Rex
Putnam has recommended that all
teachers take a spring vacation at
that time in order to permit teach
ers to attend the meeting.
HOME TO STAY
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Nickerson
arrived in Heppner Thursday eve'
ning and are now engaged in the
popular pastime of finding a
place to live. Mr. Nickerson will be
associated with his mother, Mrs.
Grace Nickerson, in operating the
Morrow County Title & Abstract
company.
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, January
Most Folks Would
Have Felt Lucky to
Just Get a Watch
A 17-jewel Bulova wrist watch
would be considered a sufficient
prize in almost any contest but in
Blaine "Bill" Isom's case it was but
a stepping stone to a much bigger
prize.
In a recent contest for member
ships in the Shrine Isom with his
Morrow county Shrine club was
well up in the count in the Port
land temple area. Finals of the con
test were held in Portland last
week and Isom was presented with
a handsome wrist watch. This en
titled him to have his name in the
pot for an automobile. The boys
all lined up, and the man appoint
ed to do the drawing reached into
the box and drew out a name and
who do you suppose got the car?
None other than Blaine E. Isom of
Heppner.
Some guys is just plain lucky,
that's all.
Clothing Coming
In Generous Lots
Results of the clothing drive
could not be. tabulated up to a late
hour today, but if the response in
other parts of the county has been
on a par with Heppner it is safe
to say that the present effort in be
half of the poorly clad millions of
Europe will measure up to if not
surpass previous drives.
Cartons rolled in all day long at
the Pacific Power & Light com
pany office and by late afternoon
only a small alleyway was left for
patrons to get from the front door
to the desk.
A complete report will be found
hi next week's issue of this news
paper.
READY TO RESUME
SHERIFFING AROUND
THESE PARTS
All slicked up in civilian attire,
with not the least trace of Shore
Police showing, C. J. D. Bauman
is all set to take up where he left
off more than three years ago
when he forsook the life of a sher
iff for that of a sailor. He takes
over in the morning, relieving Pat
Mollahan who has carried on as
sheriff since John Fuiten left to
join the navy in 1945.
Pat wll devote his time to being
a farmer for the present, at least
Archdeacon Neville Blunt has
called a meeting of the Bishop's
committee of All Saints Episcopal
church to be held immediately fol
service Sunday morning.
lowing the 11 o'clock communion
Building of Warship Revealed in Life
Story of Good Ship Daniel A. Joy
Mr. Joe Doaks or John Civilian
or whatever name one may apply
to the guy who pays the bills has
little intimate knowledge of the
things his money prodeuces in the
form of fighting equipment. His job
has been to provide the wherewith
al for the war department and has
had little time to look Into the
manner in which the money was
spent.
Through the courtesy of Glen E.
McMurtrey S lc U. S. N. R., the
Gazette Times is privileged to pub
lish the life story of the United
States Ship Daniel A. Joy, destroyer
escort 585. The story begins in the
copper mines of Arizona, the iron
mines of Minnesota and the tim
bered regions of the northwest and
carries through its induction into
period of service. Because of the
length of the story it will be bro
ken down into three or four in
stallments. The Daniel A. Joy is
Glen McMurtrey's ship, to which
he returned recently.
TODAY HINGHAM, TO
MORROW THE SEVEN SEAS
My life started deep in the soil
of the United States, from Arizona
"Dimes" Returns Exceed 1945 Total,
With Several Sources to Hear From
A few weeks ago a certain young
man who had a responsible job on
his hands openly confessed that he
was worried about the outcome.
He didn't see how he could bring
about the miracle that would match 1
the records of previous years, and
particularly 1945. Today this same
young man has his head in the
clouds and believes that life is just
a bowl of cherres of which he has
enjoyed a generous helping.
All of this worrying was done
before the officers of Willows
grange at lone offered Joe Aiken
the facilities of their hall for a
March of Dimes dance. Up to that
time Joe thought he was getting
G-T OFFICE TO CLOSE
THREE DAYS NEXT WEEK
Due to the newspaper confer
ence in Eugene Feb. 8-9, and the
desire of the Gazette Times force
to attend same, the office will be
closed Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday next week.
Correspondents and advertisers
are requesetd to turn their copy
in one day earlier than usual as
the paper must be out of the of
fice by early Thursday morning.
Copy arriving at the desk later
than 10 o'clock Wednesday morn.
inn will be carried over to the
following week.
OUT OF SERVICE
Donald L. Frederickson has re
turned to Heppner, after being dis
charged from the army Jan. 23. He
joined his mother, Mrs. Verl Fred
erickson, here the first of the week,
coming - from Lowry Field, Colo.
separation center. Prior to dis
charge he was stationed at Topeka,
Kan., army air field, assigned as
link trainer instructor. He has been
in the service since July 1942.
HAVE BABY SON
Mr. and Mrs. Antony Sokolich of
Portland announce the birth, Jan.
14, of a son, Michael Anthony; The
mother is the former Martha Blair
who taught in the Heppner schools
a few years ago.
UUNDERGOES OPERATION
Dr. A. D. McMurdo has received
word from Portland that C. A. Mi
nor is recovering nicely from an
operation to which he submitted
about 10 days ago.
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TO ATTEND ENGENE MEETING
Mrs. Lucy Rodgers announced
today that she will attend a school
building conference to be held
Feb. 11-16 in Eugene.
copper to the iron of Minnesota
and timbers of the Northwest. But
I really started to take form where
they brought all these materials to
gether in a little town called Hing
ham. My keel wan laid in the fall of
1943 and I commenced to grow and
take shape as the steel was fitted
and welded in place. I was finally
given life upon the installation of
a turbo-electric drive. I could see
now I was one of America's des
troyer escorts.
The time had come to be chris
tened and I was to be named after
a hero who had died on the battle
field on Guadalcanal what could
be more fitting. I was very proud
indeed. So on January 15, 1944 I
was christened, the United States
Ship Daniel A. Joy destroyer es
cort 585.
I now had to have the finishing
touches put on so I could be offi
daily admitted to the navy and on
April 28 1944, I was commissioned
as a combat ship of the line in the
U. S. navy.
I was very anxious to get going
and show them what I could do. In
31, 1946
along fairly well with approximate
ly $200 on the barrelhead. With the
dance proceeds and other moneys
coming in he now announces a to-
tal to date of $1,072.13, from the fol
lowing sources:
lone dance, $361.25; Boardman,
$18.72; donation cards, $383.21; Pine
City school $5; Heppner high school
$107.17; Hardman school, $6.30;
Lexington school, $18.95; Lexing
ton (town) $9823.
Several sources remain to be
heard from. There are about 20 coin
boxes out which remain to be
checked and besides, the town of
lone has not been heard from.
To Have or Have
Not a Rodeo Is the
Burning Question
All persons interested in contin-
requested to attend a meeting at 8
uation of the Heppner Rodeo are
p. m. Friday Feb. 1, in the council
room of the city building. The di
rectors would like to see a good
turnout and a liberal expression of
opinion relative to carrying on the
show.
Since the 1945 Rodeo was a de
cided success, both as a show and
in a financial way, the general op
inion prevails that it should be car
ried on and made bigger and bet'
ter. There is some adverse senti
ment also, and the directors would
like a cross section viewpoint be
fore shaping plans for the 1946
event
Your opinion may not settle the
matter one way or the other but
it will help the directors to make
a decision on whether to have or
not to have a Rodeo.
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Union Missionary
Officers Elected
Election of officers for the en
suing year was the order of busi
ness of the Union Missionary soci
ety which met with Mrs. Edgar Al
bert on Jan. 17. Mrs. Anna Q
Thomson was chosen president
Mrs. Jack Couture, vice president;
Mrs. Joel Benton secretary-treasurer;
program committee Mrs. Ture
Peterson, chairman, Mrs. Harry
Van Horn and Mrs. Joe Hughes.
The group recomended that
meeting time for each church be set
back to the former date. Plans were
laid looking forward to the World
Day of Prayer.
one more week I got my wish, and
on the 5th of May we sailed for
Charlestown, Mass. As we passed
into the Atlantic a new life was
laid open to me and I felt like a
queen as we steamed past Boston
Light. From Charlestown we were
to take pre-shake down trials
around Cape Cod which included
firing runs, compensation of the
compasses and speed runs.
On 17 May 1944 we left for our
real shake down in the beautiful
waters around Bermuda. But this
was no pleasure cruise. I was out
to show them all what I real-!
ly could do. At Bermuda we start
ed out every morning at 0400 and
we were on te go constantly until
late afternoon, firing, towing tar
gets, magnetic compensation, tor
pedo runs submarine attacks and
all other exercises which make a
destroyer escort a veteran of the
deep.
Well I came through with fly
ing colors. I had been pushed to
my limit and withstood the beating
for the better, as we turned north
for the return to Charlestown, a
Continue on vac igui
Volume 62, Number 45
Realty Deals in
County Approach
Quarter Million
Prices Range From
$25 to $40 Per
Acre, Figures Show
Morrow county ranch property
has changed hands to the extent of
approximately a quarter of a mil
lion dollars in recent weeks, ac
cording to announcement by Harry
Duvall and R. V Runnion of Hepp
ner and Ben Klindworth of Con
nell, Wash., realtors. The figure
submitted by these dealers is over
$225,000, mostly cash.
R. B. Rice and son Edward have
figured in some of the most impor
tant trading. The elder Rice recent,
ly traded his Artesian Well ranch
north of Lexington for the R. I
Benge ranch south of Heppner. Ed
ward Rice has traded his north
Lexington ranch, known as the
Bert Clark place, for the Ben
Klindworth property south of Hep
pner, the former Earl Hunt place.
These two newly acquired places
of the Rices join a large ranch pur
chased by Edward some time ago
from P. W. Maoney and A. C. Ball,
all of which wll be farmed by Ed
ward. Edward Howton of Connell, Wash,
has become the owner of the Ar
tesian ranch, as well as the former
Edward Rice ranch and a 4000
acre tract adjoining these places
which he bought from O. W. Cuts,
forth. Mr. Howton and family will
move to the Artesian ranch in
the fall.
Delbert Emert has sold his home
ranch 12 miles southwest of lone
consisting of more than 3,000 acres
to Herman Klindworth of Hatton,
Wash. Consideration $100,000. Em
ert still has large holdings and
is now building a new home just
above lone.
Prices for all the above sales
ranged from $25 to $40 per acre.
Duvall also reports , sale of the
Peters building in Heppner to Max
Gorfkle of Pendleton and the K.
C. Hedge ranch on Rhea creek,
known as the McNamer ranch, to
Otto Ruhl.
Farm Bureau Slates
Meeting at lone
Willows grange hall at lone will
be the meeting place for the Feb
ruary meeting of the Morrow
County Farm Bureau which wil be
held Monday evening, Feb. 4. The
business session will open at 8
o'clock, followed by the program
covering the several projects in
which the bureau is interested. Re
freshments will be served at the
close of the evening.
It had been ' expected that F. H.
Young, manager of the Oregon Tax
and Research bureau, would be the
principal speaker but he will be
unable to respond to the invitation
at this time. Lowell Steen, president
of the state federation, and Sam
Hunter, membership chairman, are
scheduled to speak on farm bureau
activities. J. G. Barratt will discuss
the county hospital, and Arnold
Ebert will talk on the mechanics of
the Heppner soil conservation dis
trict, using picture slides to illus
trate that type of work.
Committee members will report
on progress of the Northwest Che
murgy and the Columbia Basin
Electric cooperatives projects, both
of which are claiming the attention
of the bureau at this time.
The lone school band will play
several numbers during the pro- ,
gram hour.
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TAKE BOY TO HOSPITAL
Mrs. L. A. Humphreys and J. J.
Wightman drove to Portland Sat
urday, taking Marvin Wightman
Jr. to the Doernbecher hospital