4 Heppner Gozette Times, April 25, 1946
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Mr. and Mrs. Tom Wells drove
to Portland Sunday afternoon
where they spent a couple of days.
They returned Tuesday evening.
' Robert V. Turner and son Mich
ael of Portland spent the week-end
in Heppner visiting Mr. Turner's
I parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Turner.
Publish
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EDITORIAL
Prompt Action Needed
If there is to be more done about building a
flood control dam at Heppner than the mere draw
ing of plans, local people will have to get on the
job and do some real boosting. If this were the
only project the rivers and harbors engineers had
to consider it might be possible to get some con
sideration through the activities of a few inter
ested parties pople who have the welfare of the
community at heart and are not concerned so far
as their personal aggrandizement might enter into
the picture. It is one thing to propose and quite
another thing to get that proposal accepted.
One of the essential features of a project of
this nature is to convince the powers that be of
the necessity for it. Ofttimes the necessity is ap
parent to everybody but it still requires pressure
to gain recognition in the right quarters. Men in
high places are busy. They also have certain rules
of procedure, and the mere presentation of a pro
posed project, unless containing unusual features
that are at once recognizable, will seldom get
more than first reading and possibly marked "ta
bled for later consideration" and that virtually
means for good.
It must be recognized that a majority of the
residents of Heppner have been born or came
here since 1903. Those who witnessed that trag
edy are few in number. For that reason the pre
sent population should be informed on the sub
ject of cloudburst floods and an effort made to
stir up more enthusiasm for the type of protection
provided in the proposed dam. They should be re
minded that history has a habit of repeating it
self and that barring a few improvements along
the creek channel, a similar storm to that of June
14, 1903, would again wreak havoc here. No one
wants to see a recurrence of that disaster, yet
when there is a possibility, no matter how remote,
few if any of us will take the time to write a let
ter, or letters, to our congressional delegation or
to others in position to aid us, urging that the dam
be built. '
We may not get a favorable report on the dam
in the beginning. If we have a just cause and
stay on the job it can be brought up again. This
has been demonstrated in the Central Oregon
irrigation project, the Shasta dam and other fed
eral supported projects not built under depres
sion or wartime emergencies. It took years to get
final recognition. The North Unit irrigation pro
ject was voted in 1936, accepted by the reclama
tion bureau a year or so later but given final ap
proval only on the basis that CCC labor be used
to absorb one-fifth of the cost. Consequently if
we are in earnest about our flood control dam we
will have to prepare ourselves for a long, hard
battle. There are hundreds of proposals before the
rivers and harbors board and the inclination is to
approve those projects having what appears to
them to have the most merit.
We know our project has merit plenty of it
but can we make the board see our way? Most
certainly not if we neglect to forward the facts to
them and to urge fair consideration. This is a mat-1
matter in which all will have to show an interest
ter in which all are vitally interested. Also it is a
if future generations are not to worry every time
a heavy black cloud appears in the southern sky.
The Great American Pastime
Devotees of basball will be glad to learn that
the great national pastime is being revived in
these parts. Except for sporadic outbreaks of
school baseball there has been little evidence
of the great sport the past few years. Revival
of the Wheat League should inject a little lively
community spirit in the several towns affected
and for the next several weeks there will be
something to share the enthusiasm with the cus
tomary yarn about the big one that got away.
Baseball rosters will be made up mostly of
veterans of World War II. That is a pleasant re
minder that war is out and peactims conditions in.
It is fulfillment of a dream of many boys of that
day when they would be home once more and
living normal lives. For it is normal for youth to
existing circumstances playing the game will help
play baseball, as well as other games, and under
them eradicate bitter memories of things they did
and saw a few short months ago.
Here's hoping for a successul season in the
Wheat League and may the best team win!
Oregon's Rarest Tree
Most Oregonians love their forest trees and
have more than a speaking acquaintance with al
ders, cedars, firs, pines spruce and the host of
less common trees which are found in Oregon.
There'is one tree which is often mentioned but
seldom seen. The beauty of its wood is only sur
passed by its beauty as a growing tree. It is the
Oregon myrtle wood.
Those who think of myrtle wood as a bookend
or a candlestick will be surprised to learn that
trees four feet in diameter and one hundred feet
high were once common in the virgin myrtle wood
forests in Oregon. Today, only a few groves of
large trees remain. They are in Coos and Curry
counties, on our southern coast line.
The beauty of the Oregon myrtle wood has
created an enemy in the form of men armed with
saws, axes and turning lathes, until today the sup
ply of these trees is rapidly dwindling.
In order to save for future generations, some
representative groves of virgin myrtle wood, there
has been formed an organization called "Save the
Myrtle Woods", Inc. It is supposed to be a non
profit sharing organization, but the people of the
present, as well as the future, will profit by its
activities.
The plan is to acquire available stands of vir
gin myrtle wood trees, large enough and otherwise
suited for park purposes, and to turn these over to
the state of Oregon for conversion into state parks.
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PETERSON'S
New Bus Service
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The Grey Rock Bus Lines will now
give daily bus service beween
Heppner, Lexington and lone and
The Dalles.
Bus will leave Heppner at 7:30 a.
m. and returning leave The Dalles
at 5:15 p.m.
Gray Rock Bus Lines
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Heppner, Oregon
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