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Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, April 25, 1946
Volume 63, Number 5
Program Arranged
For Broadcast at
The Dalles May 9
Chorus and Three
Speakers Will Take
Up Allotted Time
Flans for the Heppner chamber
of commerce program to be given
May 9 at The Dalles have been
completed and were announced
Monday by Mrs. Lucy Rodgers, in
charge of local arrangements. The
chamber of commerce is to be guest
of the Kiwanis club at The Dalles
and provide the program, which
will be broadcast over station
XODL at the luncheon hour.
The program will be allotted 40
minutes and Mrs. Rodgers arranged
it in two groups. One of these will
Tae three talks. Henry Baker will
discuss agricultural progress in
Morrow county. Mayor J. O. Tur
ner's topic will be "Heppner as a
Business Center," and Mrs. Edwin
Dick Jr. will tell ofJ'Heppner as a
Home Town." The 'other part of
the program will consist of a short
concert by the Heppner Women's
Choral club.
Frank Davis, new manager of the
Tiim-A-Lum Lumber company at
Heppner, outlined the priority rul
ings supposed to favor the GI, ex
plaining why he thought the prior
ity had been in name only hereto
fore and expressing the belief that
the situation is improving a little.
He also gave his slant on the scar
city of building materials and rea
sons for believing there is no re
lief in sight for some time.
Jack O'Connor stated that results
of the recent Red Cross membership
drive were in and that the county
had subscribed 175 per cent.
Mrs. Dick reported the results of
a meeting of the high school em.
ployment committee.
scales were set up and include ac
ceptance of state and national min
imum wage control as a basis for
farm wage scale. Suggested rates
for lighter jobs were adopted by
the committee to be submitted to
the high school group. For baby
tending, 25 cents an hour until
midnight, 35 cents after midnight;
other work, unskilled type, 50 cents
an hour, and skilled labor, 75 cents
an hour.
CARNIVAL FOB FUN AND
FUNDS FOR FOOTBALL NEEDS
J Students of Heppner high school
are staging a carnival at the gym
nasium Friday evening. Fun for
everybody begins at 8 p. m.
The proceeds of the affair will
be used to purchase new football
equipment so that the needed ar
ticles will ,be on hand when the
first call comes for practice next
fall.
The kids want you to patronize
their evening of fun. There will be
the usual booths bingo, darts,
baseball throw, roulette, shooting
gallery, fortune telling, fish pond,
grab bag, and many other attrac
tions to drive dull care away.
Sandwiches and soft drinks wlU
also be on sole.
Mere Man Just Onlooker as
Women Stage Homemaker Day
OILING TO HEPPNER
OUT FOR! PRESENT
Due to a shortage of oil resur
facing of the highway between Lex
ington and Heppner will not be
done at this time The highway has
been repaired from below Morgan
to the south limits of Lexington
and it is understood the remaining
nine miles to Heppner will not be
done at this time.
A crew is set up along the Lexington-
Hermiston route to resur
face that road, probably to the
Umatilla county line.
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Saturday evening, April 27, Lex
ington I. O. O. F. hall the time
and the place for the big airport
benefit dance. Tickets are on sale
and going rapidly so that every
thing points to a big time. Plan to
meet your friends there.
There's nothing like killing, two
birds with one stone and getting
the stone back. And that is just
what it amounts to. You will buy
your tickets. The money will be
used to ease the loss of the hangar
and plane at the airport last week,
and you will get .your money's
in a pleasant manner.
Mrs. R. B. Ferguson took her
daughter, Marylou, to Walla Walla
Wednesday morning following a few
days vacation spent at home. Mary
lou is a freshman at Whitman col
lege, enrolled in the music de
partment. They were accompanied
by Mrs. Leonard Schwarz and son
LenRay.
Mrs. Bennetr, 93,
Native Oregon ian,
Called to Rest
Death removed an early Oregon
pioneer Wednesday in the passing
of Mrs. Ellen Brown Bennett of
Heppner. Mrs. Bennett was born
Sept. 21, 1852, at Goshen, small
community south of Eugene, and
spent her life in Oregon. She had
been a resident of Heppner the
past 30 years and had lived here
before in her earlier life.
Mrs. Bennett had made her home
with her son Irwin for a number
of years and despite her advanced
years was quite active around the
house until she received a fractured
arm in a fall several months ago
and since that time was provided
with help.
Services will be held at 10 o'clock
a. m. Friday, April 26, from the
Phelps Funeral Home chapel,
with O. Wendell Herbison official
ing. Interment will be made in the
Heppner Masonic cemetery.
Surviving are two sons, Irwin
Charles and Edgar Allen, both of
Heppner, a daughter, Mrs. Jean
Ann Shipstead of Casper, Wyo., i
brother, William Brown of Hepp
ner, nine grandchildren and 10
Tentative great grandchildren.
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DeMolay Chapter
Organized Here
Friday Evening
Organization of a DeMolay chap
ter was affected Friday evening
when members of the Morrow
County Shrine club met with a
group of boys in the Heppner Ma
sonic hall. Attending from outside
was Jerry Summerhays of Free-
water, "dad" of the Free water chap- I
ter, who assisted m the organiza
tion work.
Initiation and installation will be
held Wednesday evening, May 8 in
Heppner. The initiation will be op
en to Masons only but parents will
be welcomed to the installation
which will follow at a later hour.
The Shrine club is planning for a
big evening.
Officers of the chapter chosen
Friday evening were as follows:
Master councillor, Curtis Ludwig,
lone; senior councillor, Glenn Cox-
en, Heppner; juior councillor, Ron
Anderson, Arlington; senior dea
con, Bill Marshall; junior deacon,
Robert Drake; senior steward,
Clarence Greenup; junior steward,
Tom Hughes; sntinel, Billy Joe
Rietmann; chaplain, Bob Jepson;
marshall, Jim Hoag; orator, Gene
Rietmann; standard bearer, Frank
Messenger; alarminor, Jack Bloy
har; preceptors, Ross Doherty, Don
ald DuBois, Louis Carlson, Gladwin
Hudson, Doyle Keyes, Robert Berg
strom and Morgan Connor. Scribe
and treasurer, J. O. Turner.
A man may be considered the'
head of his house but he has rea-j
sons to believe that he is such inj
name only. When it comes to runn
ing the house the good spouse, the
one he chose for better or for
worse, is engineer, fireman and
conductor all in one. She plans the
meals, orders the groceries, does
the cooking in most instances
arranges the furniture, selects the
drapes, wall paper, the children's
clothes, and even tells paw what
tie to wear. All that's required of
the head of the house is to direct
his own body out of the way, and
incidentally pay the bills.
But contrary to that toast offer
ed by some past great "God bless
the women, we can't get along with
'em or without 'em most men find
their services quite acceptable and
go merrily on their way blissfully
happy that they can't get along
without them.
Thus it was that four venture
some souls oi the male gender
found themselves attending the
home makers day meeting at the
Lexington grange hall Wednesday.
At least the men folks arrived at
the noon hour in time for the boun
tiful luncheon served by the Lex
ington ladies. A couple of hours
spent fn the presence of these
champions for "better homes for
better living" left them convinced
that home making is the feminine
forte for there were experts on
hand to prove that to be the case.
"Better Homes for Better Living"
was a subject expertly handled by
Miss Lois Lutz, extension special
ist in home management, and Miss
Frances Clinton was equally effi
cient in presenting her subject,
"New Fabrics for You and Your
House."
Mrs. Lucy Rodgers emcee d at
the luncheon" and introduced the
guests, committee chairmen and
speakers. A feature of the lun
cheon program was an exhibit
by Mrs. Wood's "Sewing Susies".
The girls each wore a dress made
by themselves since the group or
ganized a few weeks ago and mod
eled them for the benefit of the
gathering. , There were talks by
Miss Clinton, Arnold Ebert and
Miss Lutz and Miss Grace Gadeken.
A check of the crowd present
brought to light that all home ex
tension units in the county were
represented except Irrigon. Ninety
five persons were served at the lun
cheon, making this one of the best
meetings held by the women since
the emergency home management
program was instituted more than
a year ago.
Those four fortunate but timid
souls previously alluded to? Well
there were a county judge, a coun
ty commissioner, sin aericultural
agent and an editor.
Mrs. Helen Bevers of Bakersfleld
Calif, is visiting her brothers, Joe
and Fred Meek, and families. Mrs.
Bever is a beautician and has ac
cepted a. position in Lois' beauty
shop.
Archie Ball Jr. is very ill at the
parental home On upper Rhea creek.
The little lad has been ill for sev
eral weeks and is causing his fam
iy and friends much concern.
Lawrence Slocum
Services Held Here
Tuesday Afternoon
Memorial services were held at
2 o'clock p. m. Tuesday at the Phelps
Funeral Home chapel for Lawrence
Slocum who passed away in Port
land Sunday, April 21. O. Wendell
Herbison, pastor of the Heppner
Church of Christ, officiated and
interment was made in the Hepp
ner Masonic cemetery. The Masonic
committment sqvice was used at
the graveside.
Mr. Slocum succumbed to a
brain abscess, following an opera
tion t6 bring him relief. He had
not been well the past two years
and was taken to a Portland hos
pital five weeks prior to his death
where the best of medical skill was
employed.
.Lawrence timer blocum was
born in Heppner on July 14,
1907, the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J.
Slocum and but for a few years
spent at Lexington when his fa
ther was Union Pacific agent there,
had called Heppner home all his
life. He graduated from Lexington
high school, where he was promi
nent in athletics, and in July 1929
was married to Frieda McMillan at
Albany. To this union six children
were born, all of whom, with the
mother, survive. The children are
Barbara, Peter, Frances Nancy
Jane, Mary K. and Carollyn. Other
survivors include his mother, one
brother, Lamont Slocum of The
Dalles, and five sisters, Mrs. Jesse
Beardsley of Heppner, Mrs. Frank
Baiklay, Mrs. Harry Kem of Port
land, Mrs. Alfred Nowmr.n and
Mrs. Lee Drake of Sacramento,
Calif.
Lawrence, "Si" he was commonly
called, was a member of Heppner
lodge No. CQ, A. F. & A. M.. Pall
bearers included lodge brothers and
neighbors and were James Hayes,
Archie Ball, Floyd Jones, Raymond
Pettyjohn, Gordon Banker and Tom
Harris.
FORMER RESIDENTS VISIT
Visitors in the county a few
days the past week were Mr. and
Mrs. W. E. Bullard of Gold Beach.
The Bullards lived at lone from
1921 until 1930 when Mr. Bullard
operated a drug store there. He re
ports business flourishing along the
southwest coast region since lily
culture has become quite universal.
Ebert Family to
Depart This Week
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Ebert and
son Stephen . will leave Heppner
this week-end for the Willamette
valley to make their home. Due to
difficulties in obtaining housing, Mr
Ebert will go to Corvallis to as
sume his new duties and continue
his search for a house and Mrs.
Ebert and Stephen will stay with
her parents in Salem until suitable
quarters are found.
The Eberts have been residents
of Heppner almost two years, com
ing here from Fossil where h
served as Wheeler county agricul
tural agent for eight years. In the
readjustment that has come follow
ing the war, there cropped up the
position of agricultural director of
station KOAC at Oregon State
college and Ebert was offered the
job. It represents an advance in
his line of work and while reluc
tant to quit the county agent work
he feels he is taking a step in the
right direction.
Unless living quarters can be
found immediately, Morrow county
will ,be without an agricultural
agent temporarily. Ebert's success
or, the one selected for the job,
lives in North Dakota and will not
come unless guaranteed housing.
NICE CATCIIEs"4 REPORTED
FIRST DAY OF SEASON
Big fishing yarns have not de
veloped since the opening day but
despite the lack of tall stories some
good catches have been made.
Blaine Isom, who dropped into the
editorial sanctum today, slated that
he caught one lB inch trout and
one 12 Vz inch beauty as a starter
towards a successful angling season.
A report comes from the Floyd
Worden family that a 19-inch trout
was caught by either Floyd or
Mrs. Worden, Isom didn't know
which. Anyway, that is a sizeable
fish for such a small stream as
those found in Morrow county.
The Orville Smith family are
enjoying trout pretty frequently as
young Jimmy inveigles the finny
beauties into his creel with a reg
ularity that leaves nothing to the
imagination. Some of the oldsters
can look to their laurels.
"Play Ball" Again
To Be Heard on
District Diamonds
Heppner and lone
To Cross Bats at
lone Sunday P. M.
Further evidence that peace is
with us is seen in the revival of
the great American pastime in this
where for so many years the Wheat
League provided entertainment for
the followers of baseball. Through
the efforts of the American Legion
posts of the area, the Wheat League
has been revived and the first ex
hibition for this immediate vicinity
will be played at lone Sunday af
ternoon when teams representing
the Heppner and lone Legion posts
will cross bats on the school dia
mond. Reorganization of the league has
been under way for some time and
during the past week crystalizing
into a working group with teams
from four counties, including Moro,
representing Sherman; Condon and
Arlington, Gilliam couty; Fossil,
Wheeler county and Heppner and
lone, Morrow county.
A schedule of games designed to
carry baseball activities through the
spring and early summer is being
worked out and in the meantime,
lone and Heppner will feel out
their strength in the meeting at
lone Sunday.
Practice is being held evenings
at the Rodeo grounds for candi
dates for the Heppner team. There
are no "seeded" positions as yet
and any ambitious player who will
take the time to go out and practice
will be given an Opportunity to
"strut his stuff." Willard Blake is
talent scout for the local team and
will gladly add your name to his
list.
While a definite lineup had not
been arranged up to press time,
Manager Blake provided names of
players forming a tentative squad.
These include Al Massey, catcher;
Jack Miller, Harlan McCurdy Jr.
Doug Drake and Ray Massey,
pitching staff; Kenny Hoyt, first
base; Joe Aiken, second base; Rich
Hayes, third base; Dub Aiken,
shortstop, and Howard Bryant,
Wilbur Worden and a newcomer
by the name of Olson, outfield.
VISITING HOME FOLKS
Captain and Mrs. Walter Oslund
are guests at the home of Mrs. Os
lund's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Wilkinson, where they have been
since Thursday of last, week. They
have been in North Carolina the
Tuesday for Cheyenne, Wyo. The
past several months and will leave
Captain will be discharged from
the army in June and he and Mrs.
Oslund plan to enroll at the Uni
versity of Wyoming.
Ed Clark was in Heppner Or a
few hours Wednesday visiting old
friends and neighbors. He makes
his home in Hermiston.
Peter Curran Dies
Of Heart Attack
Peter Curran, resident of Mor
row county some 40 years, passed
away about noontime Tuesday at
the home of Mrs. Charlotte Kil
kenny where he had been an em
ploye for a number or- ycai. Death
was due to a heart attack which
he suffered shortly before noon
and while sitting in the living
room of the Kilkenny residence.
Services were held thir: morning
at St. Patrick's Catholic church,
Father Francis McCorrnick officiat
ing and arrangements in charge of
Phelps Funeral Home. Interment
was in Heppner Masonic cemetery.
Peter Joseph Curran was a na
tive of Ireland, which country he
left about 40 years ago to come to
America. He spent most of that
time in Morrow' county working on
the sheep ranches. He was mar
ried and is survived by the widow
and a daughter, and two brothers,
John and Mike Curran all of this
county.
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