FINED FOR DRAGGING
PLOW ACROSS ROAD
Norman Washburn appeared be
fore Justice J. O. Hager Tuesday
in answer to a complaint that he
had dragged a plow across a coun
ty road. Upon pleading guilty to
the charge, he was assessed a
fine of $10 and costs, which were
promptly paid.
Minimum penalty for this of
fense is $50 fine Or 25 days in jail;
maximum $250 fine or 125 days in
jail. The justice took into consider
ation that this was a first offense
and partly due to a misunderstand
ing of the statute in fixing the fine.
FARM PLAN SIGN-UP
May 1 is the final date for Mor
row county farmers and livestock
operators to sign their 1946 farm
and range management plans and
to receive prior approval on any
soil conserving or soil building
practice's they expect to perform
this year, announced Henry Baker,
county AAA chairman this week.
Inportance of signing the plans be
fore the May 1 deadline is empha
sized especially this year as prior
approval of the county committee
must be obtained in order to re
ceive payment for any practices
performed.
TAKING TO AIR
Orville Cutsforth is among the
air minded folk these days and is
learning to pilot a plane. He has
learned to take off and maintain
the ship in flight but says he has
not progressed far enough to bring
it to a landing, leaving that to h's
trainer, Jack Forsythe.
Heppner Gazette Times, April 4, 194& 5
Gazette's 1st Printer
Writes of Early Days
This is the 63rd anniversary of
the Heppner Gazette and it is with
great pleasure we publish a letter
from H. L. Keyte who tells how
he put the original plant in order
and got out the first issue in late
March 0f 1883. His letter is self
explanatory and needs no further
comment.
Merlin, Oregon, March 6, 1946
Ed. Gazette Hello Gazette folks.
Well, the Gazette and I have had
another birthday if the Gazette
hasn't it's just about to. Mine was
Jan. 10, and I have had it that the
Gazette's was March 6, but of late
I have thought I-may be mistaken
in the day anyway, it was March
1883, (when the Heppner country
was still in Umatilla county), that
I unwrapped the packages of new
type' from Palmer & Reys found-
ary and "laid the cases" and "set"
the first issue, and did most of the
"setting" for the following three
years. I was also the "technician"
and operator of the Washington
hand press.
J. H. Stine, the starter, was too
busy sampling the corn juice in the
three saloons in town to give the
paper much of his time.
Dr. E. R. Swinburne wrote the
salutatory editorial of the first issue.
1- ' Vh
K
Billy Morrow brought J. W. Red
ngton up from Portland to take it
over and try to pull it out of the
about $1400 debt owed to the mer
chants. So they got Stine out and
Redington in.
Stine seemed to have the habit
of starting papers in little towns.
His last venture before coming to
Heppner was at We'ser, Idaho, and
his next after Heppner was at In
dependence, and his next stop was
at Grants Pass where he launched
the "Courrier." But he was npt a
self-starter always got ' the mer
chants to put up for the plant.
Where he went from there I have
never heard.
Well, three score and three years
is a long time. Quite a . number of
those who have had to do with the
Gazette have since passed on.
After leaving Morrow county I
spent eight years at printing on
Puget Sound. My health getting
bad I resolved to quit it, so sold my
half interest in a job plant at Ev
erett and came down here, where
I have been in mining and horti
culture. At outdoor work I have
enjoyed good health up to the last
three years, when it has not been
so good.
I have two sons and three dau
ghters, 13 grandchildren and one
great grandson. Three grandsons in
the service one in the navy, one
in the army and one in aviation.
If I should visit Heppner now, af
ter half a century, I don't suppose
I would find half a dozen old tim
ers I would know. I cannot recall
any that I know there but Mac
Clark. He is the kind of friend we
never forget.
H. L. Keyte.
Charters Received
For Four 4-H Clubs
Charters for four 4-H clubs have
been received and the groups have
started on their 1946 activities, an
nounces Miss Grace Gadeken, em
ergency home demonstration agent
and 4-H club leader. One club each
at lone and .Heppner and two at
Lexington make up the list.
The Victory sewing club at Hen-
pner is under the leadership of
Mrs. A. D. Moore. Mrs. Alonzo
Henderson has a camp cookery
"Sewing Susies" clothing club at
club and Mrs. Louise Wood the
Cabe is leader of the "Mothers
Lexington, while Mrs. L. A. Mc
Little Helpers" club at lone.
Requirements for securing a
charter include five members nine
years old or older; adult leader and
officers, and outlined program for
year's activities.
to a telegram received by Arnold
C. Ebe'rt, county AAA secretary
from the state AAA office.
The telegram stated details would
be released as soon as available.
SPRING ACREAGE REPORTS '
All wheat growers having Feder
al Crop Insurance contracts in
force are expected to report any
acreage seeded to spring wheat at
the county office,, said Henry Ba
ker, county AAA chairman, this
week, to help clarify some misun
derstanding among growers. This
does not mean reporting of any
acreage reseeded to spring wheat
that had been reported previously
as fall sown.
CCC OFFERS TO BUY
1945 HOLDOVER WHEAT
Commodtiy Credit corporation
announced Wednesday the offer to
purchase 1945 wheat with certifi
cates redeemable at market price
on any later date elected by seller
through March 31, 1947, according
until some big job turned up, to accomplish a
fask that has worried the city fathers many months.
The streets have been and are being swept, wash
ed ana tne aeons hauled away. It is a most com
mendable service and this newspaper wishes to
doff the proverbial tile to Raymond Parrish, ex
GI, who has a pride in his home town.
It hardly seems reasonable that returning ser
vice men have caused an outbreak of smallpox
They were all vaccinated against that and other
disases. It might be that sAme of them were af
flicted with tropical disease resembling smallpox.
The outbreak could have started in the civilian
population just as it has done in times past, but
if it did start among the GI's the question arises
how much good is vaccination in preventing the
disase.
Glen Warner
to be at the
Church of Christ
in Heppner
the week preceding
Easter
April 14 through 19th
We invite you to enjoy this week
of spiritual messages with us.
O. Wendell Herbison
Pastor
PUZZLED?
You will lose that puzzled ex
pression when you read our
menu. It is easy to order
a meal here, for no matter
what you select you are bound
to be satisfied.
Join the well-fed ranks
by taking your meals at .
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