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Kenneth A. House
Made P. P. L. Co.
District Manager
Local Man Given
Area
A surprise move was made here
this week when on Wednesday it
was announced that K. A. House
had been elevated to a district
managership and that he will take
Over the Pacific Power & Light
company at Dayton, Wash., Mon
day. This district includes the
Pomeroy and Waitsburg areas, giv
ing House a generous slice of south
eastern Washington to supervise.
House wil be succeeded here by
Robert Forsythe of Goldendale who
will come to Heppner Monday to
take over. He has had 11 years with
the Pacific Power & Light company
and is exerienced in all phases of
electric operation. Starting at Enter
prise as a general utility employe,
he worked as serviceman and line
man for the company at Hood Ri
ver, The Dalles, and Goldendale be
fore his appointment here.
Succeeding Ray Kinne as man
ager, House came to Heppner in
1941 from White Bluffs, Wash. He
has been active in community and
civic affairs, serving one year as
president of the Heppner chamber
of commerce, and will be elevated
to the post of exalted ruler of Hepp
ner lodge No. 358, B. P. O. E. this
evening. No less active In commu
nity affairs, Mrs. House has been
chairman of Christmas Seal sales
for two years, and recently was
elected president of the Morrow
County Woolgrowers auxiliary. She
holds the position of conductress in
Ruth chapter, Order of Eastern
Star, and has been prominent in
social and civic activities.
Mr.' House will take over at
Dayton Monday and his family will
move about April 1.. They are sell
ing their residence property which
they acquired three years ago and
hope they will be able to buy a
desirable house in Dayton.
Announcement of the change in
Heppner management was made by
Homer Beale, district manager at
Pendleton.
4-H Beef Club to
Be Active in 1946
By BETTY GRAVES
4-H Beef Club Reporter
The Morrow county beef club
was organized March 17 by Arnold
Ebert, county agent and John Gra
ves, 4-H club leader. There were 13
members present and a few more
are planning to join.
Officers were elected as follows
president, Faye Cutsforth; vice
president, Jo Graves; secretary,
Hilmuth Herman, and reporter,,
Betty Graves.
Every member has his calf. So
far there are two Angus and the
rest are Hereford steers. The mem
bers reported on their calves and
feeding methods. One thing the
club is looking forward to this year
is judging teams.
Meetings wil be held at 2 p. m.,
every other Saturday at different
members' homes. The next meet
ing will be held at the O. W. Cuts
forth ranch, March 30. Any boys
or girls wishing to join are invited
to attend any of the meetings. $t is
planned to judge different animals
at each home.
Pendleton Lodge
Host to Visitors
Lodges from Umatilla, Morrow,
Gilliam and Wheeler counties were
represented at a' meeting of the Ma
sonic lodge in Pendleton Monday
evening at which time the Umatilla
lodge presented the traveling gavel
to the Pendleton lodge.
In addition to the gavel presen
tation, there was degree work and
an hour of refreshment, making in
all a large evening for the brethren.
Attending from Heppner lodge
No. G9 were LoyaV Parker, Ray Mc
Allister, Harold Becket and Blaine
Isom. lone was represented by
George Ely and Omar Rietmann.
Other lodges represented were Ar
lington, Fossil, Echo, Umatilla and
Pilot Rock.
Hunters, Anglers
Organize for 1946
A reduction in crow and magpie
population is the objective of the
Morrow County Hunters and Ang
lers clu,b and the said offenders
had best take to the tall timber if
they choose to avoid a blackout.
This was decided Thursday eve
ning when a group of sportsmen
met at the Elks club and formed
plans for the 1946 extermination
campaign.
Rules of past years will be fol
lowed as it has .been found that one
of the best methods of prodducing
results has been to award boys and
girls a fair bounty and prizes for
destroying nests and killing birds.
Several matters came before the
meetng, princial one of which was
election of officers. Blame Isom
was reelected president and J. V.
Crawford was tendered the post of
secreaary.
The group wul work for a big
membership and those interested
are advised that it is not difficut
to obtain a membership card. They
are on sale at Heppner Hardware &
Electric, Giliam & Bisbee, Gamble's
store and Heppner Cafe. The plas
tic collar button or whatever it is
one awards for such honors, should
go to Harvey White at Heppner
Cafe, who has sold 25 member
ships up to date.
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PRESENTATION OF
SERVICE AWARDS TO BE
MADE AT THE DALLES
Several Morrow county people
have . been invited to a banquet
sponsftred by the chamber of com
merce at The Dalles honoring se
lective service boards and other
non-salaried war workers of the
district including Hood River, Was
co," Sherman, Gilliam and Morrow
counties. The dinner will be served
at 6 o'clock th's evening.
Members of the selective service
board here are M. D. Clark, J. O.
Hager and Judge Bert Johnson.
Mr. Clark is in Eugene and prob
ably cannot attend, but the other
members are expected to be there.
The county court also has been in
vited, as well as Mayor J. O. Tur
ner and O. G. Crawford,
selective service board members
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service during the war
ANNOUNCEMENT PARTY ....
Mrs. Muriel Rice announced the
engagement of her son, LaVerne
Van Marter to Miss Laurel Ball at
an informal party at her home Sun
day evening. A quizz game held
the center of the stage and won for
Mrs. Richard Hayes the prize. Pi
nochle and hearts wre played for
a while. Guests present were Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Hayes, Mr.' and
Mrs. Francis NickersOn, Misses
Mary Kelly, Darleen Biddle, Bar
bara Ledbetter and Teresa Bur
gett, Jackson Holt, Charles Hodge
Jr., Warren Blakely, Jr. and Don
Hatfield.
Miss Ball is the eldest daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Ball. Both
Miss Ball and Mr. Van Marter are
graduates of Heppner high school
and Mr. Van Marter attended the
University of Oregon. No date has
been set as yet for the wedding.
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Green had as
guests over the week-end, their
niece, Miss Dorothy Ward, and two
friends, Miss Maysie Roth and Miss
Ethel Teafer, al of Santa Ana, Calif.
The young women have recently
been discharged from the Marine
corps and were enroute , to their
respective homes, Miss Teafer to
St. Louis, Mo., Miss Roth to Col
fax, Wash., and Miss Ward also to
Colfax before proceeding to her
home in Virginia.
Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Jones have
eel that he is back in the States
received word from their son Mar
and that He expets to be home
soon. He was due to receive his
discharge frm the army Saturday
and was going to Arkansas to meet
his wife and they would drive
home from there.
Louise Green, student at Eastern
Oregon College of Education, La
Grande, will spend the. spring vaca
tion, beginning this week-end, with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex
Green.
Friends have received cards an
nouncing the birth of twin boys
to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Fell on
March 14 in Portand.
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, March
HEALTH ASSOCIATION
DINNER SCHEDULED
FOR TUESDAY NIGHT
Ctizens of the community
should not forget the county pub
lic health association annual
meeting and dinner to be held
at the parish house of All Saints
Episcoal church. Matters of im
portance to the welfare of the
county will be discussed, a good
dinner will be served, and Mrs.
Sadie Orr Dunbar, secretary
manager of the Oregon Tubercu
losis association, will be guest
speaker.
While special invitations have
been issued to active workers in
the countty health unit, a general
invitation has likewise been ex
tended to the public. The ladies
are serving the dinner at $1 per
plate and would appreciate reser
vations now.
UMATILLA LIBRARIAN TO
CONDUCT STORY HOUR AT
HEPPNER LIBRARY 23RD
Miss Neva LeBlonde, Umatilla
story-teller at the children's hour
county librarian, will be guest
March 23. A trained library worker,
at the library, 10:30 a. m. Saturday
Miss LeBlond has an exceptional
talent for entertaining children, as
well as adults, and it is the ope of
tlie local association that many
will avail themselves of this Oppor
tunity to hear her.
At 11:30 a. m., Miss LeBlond will
teach bookmending to the Girl
Scouts and Boy Scouts who are
interested. Scouts earn merit badges
by doing this and will find this a
quick step towards acquiring extra
points.
Two more Heppner boys joining
the ranks of civilians again are Ray
mond Parrish and Warren Blake-
ley, both of whom returned to the
old home town over the week-end.
Young Parrish is enjoying the com
forts of home with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Parrish after three
years in the service.' It is under
stood he plans going to Alaska to
work with his uncle, Raymond
Huddleston, after a good visit at
home. Blakely is here with his fa
ther, W. L. Blakely, who is On his
annual wool buying trip. The
Bakelys now make j, h0me in
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Portland
Philip Cohn was host to a num
ber of friends at a steak dinner
last evening. The meal was pre
pared and served by his mother,
Mrs. Harold Cohn and Mrs. Addie
Patterson. Guests were Jim Barratt,
Raymond Parrish, Don Hatfield,
Bud Blakely, Jackson Holt, Don
Jones, and LaVerne Van Marter.
Cards were the entertainment of
the evening with LaVerne holding
all the good ones
Mrs. Cyrene Barratt and son Jim
are driving to Portland Friday to
visit for a few days. They will go
on to Corvallis to make arrange
ments for Jim's reentrance into
O. S. C. before returning home.
M. L. Case is confined to his
home this week. His son Allen
expects to take him to Portland
this week-end for medical aid.
Mrs. Howard Bryant is working
for Braden Tractor & Equipment
company starting last Monday,
Miss Dorotha Wilson was a week
end guest at the home of her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Wilson.
'Sa Small World and Heppner
Youth Can Vouch For It . . .
This old world looked pretty big
to a 17-year old boy when he set
forth to help put down the late
Japanese uprising and the farther
away from home he got the more
distant the horison in tlie direction
of home. Now comes Jim Barratt
to disprove the theory that the
world is such a portly planet. He
knows, because he has been around
a goodly sl'ce of it and has a rec
ord of his own to prove his con
tention. Returning from Pacific waters,
Jim was stationed in Virginia. He
was able to convince naval auth
and wangled a 39-day leave pre
orities that he was needed at home
paratory to getting a discharge from
the service. He hitchhiked an auto
mobile ride from the Virginia base
to Wasington D. C. His family had
been advised that he would come
west by plane and they expected to
21, 1946
Radio Program for
May 9 Outlined at
Monday's Luncheon
A program designed to give radio
listeners a favorable impression of
Heppner and Morrow county has
been prepared by Mrs. Lucy Rod
gers in behalf of the Heppner
chamber of commerce for presen
tation over Station KODL, The
Dalles, on May 9. The chamber of
commerce accepted the invitation
of the Kiwanis club at The Dalles
to attend the club's weekly lunch
eon and provide the program.
The Morrow county talent will
have a period of 40 minutes to
fill and Mrs. Rodgers worked out a
schedule that will fill the bill
nicely. Fifteen minutes of the time
will be given over to the Heppner
Women's Choral club for a brief
concert. Another 20 minutes will
be taken with brief talks by pro
minent citizens, leaving five min
utes for introductions and other
items.
The program has the aproval of
the Knwanis club and the chamber
of commerce, as well as the choral
club upon which much of the en
tertainment depends.
Francis Nickerson announced at
Monday's lucheon that the Mer
chants' Credit Bureau is now in op
eration and urged the business
people to make use of its facilities.
Cachot Therkelson, owner of the
Hotel Heppner, was introduced and
made a few remarks relative to
his purchase of the property and
what is being done to improve the
service. ,
C. W. Barlow introduced his son-in-law,
Robert Walker, who has
returned to civilian life and ex
pects to again take up his resid
ence in Heppner.
The choral club has .been invited
to sing at The Dalles high school
while in the city on May 9. James
M., Burgess, former Heppner school
superintendent, heads the system
at The Dalles.
KNITTERS NEEDED AT
RED CROSS WORKROOM
Demand for knitted garments for
hospitalized veterans and service
men has increased at a rapid rate
and the call is out for more volun
teer workers. While a number of
women have been doing their bit
tnere is need for many more knit
ters if the local unit is to meet the
requirements placed upon it, ac
cording to Mrs. Anna Bayless,
chairman of the knitting division.
There is a scarcity of v-neck
sweaters coat sweaters, bed sox and
regular sOx. Brs. Bayless urges all
women who can knit to secure ma
terials and turn out some of these
articles. The workroom is open on
Tuesday and Thursday afternoons
each week, where materials may be
obtained, or call Mrs. Bayless and
she will see that they are provided.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Davis and
two children from Fayetteville, N.
C. arrived in Heppner Saturday to
visit Mr. Davis' parents and other
members of his family. Ralph was
very ill for several month and was
hospitalized in Florida. J. F. Davis
and son-in-law and daughter, Mrs.
Dan Maynard, spent the week-end
in Heppner with Mrs. Davis, com
ing from Cle Elum, Wash where
the men are employed in the saw
mill there.
I But this sailor lad decided he would
carry tne h'tciihiking into the air
meet him at a Mainhliner terminal,
and save some $150, and arriving
at Washington he went to an army
field where he made inquiry about
catching a r'ide to the west in an
army plane. He was advised that
it was possible but would have to
wait perhaps 24 hours.
"But I will take your name and
your destination and place you in
line for as early departure as pos
sible, said the young man wait
ng upon him.
"My name's J. G. Barratt and I
live at Heppner, Oregon, and it is
very urgent that I get home as fast
as possible," replied the applicant.
"Jim Barratt, did you say? Why
I played basketball against you
four or five years ago. My names
Hanson and my home is at Arling
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Crop Outlook in
County Excellent
At Present Time
Moisture Plentiful,
Growing Weather
OK, Farmers Say
Crop prospects In Morrow coun
ty at this early stage are such as
to make the farmers optimistic and
barrmg unfavorable weather con
ditions which could Occur there is
reason to believe that another big
yield is in the making. Bountiful
rains of the past two weeks have,
put the needed moisture in the
ground and there has been no cold
weather to check the growth of
grain. Some farmers report their
crops in as good a state at this
.time as they have ever seen and are
quite confident that a busy harvest
season is ahead.
That the rains have been general
is seen in the report of V. L. Carl
son, weather observer for the
Gooseberry district, one of the
regular heavy wheat producing
sections. In town late last week,
uanson reported t"at tne neavy
showers on Tuesday March 12 pro
duced .82 of an inch of moisture.
On tlie following Friday another
.18 of an inch was recorded, mak
ing a total of one inch for the week.
No report has been received on thh
rainfall since Friday, but it has
been considerable.
Rainfall in Heppner as recorded
by Lcn Gilliam, has been a little
less than the Gooseberry report but
indicates that this section of the
county is receiving sufficient mois
ture to encourage the crop situation.
This ' condition, which is general
over the grain section of eastern
Oregon ties in well with the
emergency food campaign for fa
mine relief for which Oregon far
mers are willing to do their full
share. Grain shipments from the
Heppner and other branches of the
Union Pacific have been heavy the
past few weeks and this will con
tinue until storage facilities are
emptied, or sufficiently reduced to
take care of the 1946 crop.
SERVICES HELD TUESDAY
FOR ROBERT LEE BEARD
Services for Robert Lee Beard,
79, who passed away Thursday,
March 14, were held from the
Phelps Funeral Home at 2 o'clock
p. m., Tuesday, with O. Wendell
Herbison, pastor of the Heppner
Church of Christ, officiating. The
body was shipped to Portland that
evening for cremation.
Mr. Beard was a native of Tex
as, bom June 14, 1866, in Hopkins
county, that state. He had been a
resident of Heppner for 29 years.
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CAPT. McMURDO HOME
Dr. and Mrs. A. D. McMurdo
have been informed by their son,
Capt. Charles E. McMurdo, that he
has been returned to the States and
joined his wife at Lynchburg, Va.
"Ted", as he is familiarly known,
was stationed on Bermuda where
he supervised plane shipments from
the States to battle areas and Al
lied nations. He plans on coming
west shortly to visit his family and
friends.
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GO TO ROCHESTER
Mrs. James Valentine and Mrs
Edward Rice left Tuesday for Ro
chester, Minn., where Mrs. Valentine
goes for a medical check-up. The
ladies took a plane from Pendleton
to Spokane and had transportation
by plane from tore to Rochester.
J. J. O'Connor and family left
Wednesday morning for Spokane
where Mr. O'Connor is attending,
a convention of Penney store man
agers. They will be gone the rest
of the week.
Robert Walker has returned to
his home in Heppner after a long
tour pf duty in the army which
took im over seas. He and Mrs.
Walker are making their home with
her parents where an apartment is
being constructed for them.
Howard Gilliam received his dis
charge from the navy on March 15
and is due home today.
Mr and Mrs. Frank Monahan,
have moved to Dayville,
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