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County Has Four
Less Precincts in
Current Election
Confusion Due if
Voters Uninformed
Of Changed Status
Some confusion may develop as
a result of consolidations made dur
ing the past year unless voters
seek to find out which precinct 'they
are now in. This was pointed out
Wednesday by County Clerk C. W.
Barlow, who stated that many vo
ters are unaware of the changes
made and may go to the accustom
ed voting places to cast their .bal
lots. The clerk suggests that those not
sure of their new status contact
his office and obtain necessary in
formation. Because of the thinning out in
some of the precincts and the light
vote cast in the past few elections,
the county court decided to make
more consolidations. This may ne
cessitate longer drives by some of
the voters, but if they live 15 miles
or more from the voting place they
have the privilege of using the ab
sentee ballot. The latest consolida
tions, published in the court pro
ceedings a few months back but
evidently read by few people, re
duced the number of precincts
from 13 to nine. The north two
thirds of Gooseberry precinct was
put in lone precinct, the other one
third in Eight Mile. Cecil was con
solidated with lone. Most of Alpine
is now in Lexington precinct and
Lena was divided between South
Heppner and Pine City.
The nine precincts now include
Hardman, Eightmile, North Hepp
ner, South Heppner, Lexington.
lone, Pine City, Irrigon and Board-
man.
C. of C. Group at
The Dalles Today
Representatives of the Heppner
chamber of commerce, including
the Women's Choral club, Mayor J.
O. Turner, Henry Baker and Mrs.
L. E. Dick Jr., and several members
appeared on the Kiwanis program
at The Dalles at noon today, carry
ing a message about the greatness
of Morrow county to a generous
slice of Oregon and part of Wash
ington over Station KODL.
If local people heard the program
through they were more fortunate
than ye ed. The family radio put
up a squawk' that completely ob
literated the program after the cho- j
rus started on the scond number j
and continued acting up for the I
rest of the 40-minute period. j
From what was heard, the talent
got off to a good start and it is
quite certain both chorus and spea
kers acquitted themselves credit
ably. o
DeMotay Formally
Organized Here
Formal organization of the Mor
row County-Arlington chapter of
the Order of DeMolay was accom
plished in a special meeting at the
Masonic hall in Heppner Wednes
day evening. Degree work was
given by the team of the Milton
Freewater chapter under direction
of Jerry Summerhays, leader.
Thirty boys from Heppner, lone
and Arlington were initiated and
officers chosen at a preliminary
meeting here two weeks ago were
installed.
A chapter meeting will be held
Monday evening in lone. In order
of rotation, the following meeting
will be held at Arlington.
LEXINGTON GRANGE
All members are urged to be
present at the meeting of Lexing
ton grange at 8 p. m. Friday. May
10, according to the secretary, Mrs.
Bay Dolvtn.
Heppner,
Young Says Only
One Tax Source
Remains Untouched
There is but one tax source left
to Oregonians and the time is not
far distant when we will be dipping
into that, in the opinion of F. H.
Young, manager of the Oregon Tax
& Research bvfreau. Young was
speaking before the Morrow Coun
ty Farm bureau) at Willows Grange
hall in lone Monday evening when
he brought up the subject. iJ ,
There are nine main sources of
taxation open to the state. Of these,
eight have been employed and the
ninth, he thinks, is not far distant.
That is the sales tax. He cited the
success with which Washington
and California have handled the
! sales tax. how those states have
met many of the funding problems
that are causing Oregon taxing
bodies tremendous headaches, and
he thinks that although the sales
tax has been rejected several
times, circumstances will force the
issue again and it might be that
the next time it comes up enough
objectors will have changed their
viewpoint to carry it.
George A. Corwin, superintend
ent of Heppner schools, spoke in
behalf of the state teacher associa
tion sponsored measure to raise per
capita cost per school census child
from 30 cents a day basis to 50
cents per day. Young commented
upon this and other measures call
ing for increased taxes but re
frained from handing out advice.
PRINTER TO JOIN
GAZETTE TIMES STAFF
This newspaper is happy to an
nounce that beginning Monday,
May 13, Charles E. Jonas of Mil-
waukie,. Ore. will be a member of
the office staff. Mr. Jonas is a
printer-operator and will preside
in the shop, where mechanical as
sistance has been so badly needed
for many months. He has been env
ployd at Sheridan, Ore. since leaV'
ing the navy last year, but being a
native of eastern Oregon he has a
yearning to get back to the land
of sunshine (or where the sun
shines occasionally, at least), and
the Gazette Times was able to in
duce him to come to Heppner.
Jonas is the son of R. A. Jonas,
former pujbl'sher of the Central
Oregonian at Prineville, and has
spent most of his life in eastern
Oregon.
TRAVEL PROGRAM FEATURES
With tourist and vacationists free once again to
take to the open road and travel as far as they wish,
Oregon's picturesque eeast line Is expected to attract
reeoN ftwnoer ef visiters uiw
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Oregon, Thursday, May
Heppner Edges Out
15-12 Win Over
Wasco Here Sunday
Legionnaires Trail
3 Innings Before
Hitting Pay Dirt
Heppner's Legionnaire baseball
club notched its first victory of the
season Sunday afternoon at the
Rodeo field by edging Wasco 15-12
in a ball game that had its ups
and downs for both teams.
At the end of three innings a
black picture was painted for Hep
pner rooters when Wasco had
things all to themselves with an 8
to 1 lead. From then on, however,
it was a different story as the
Heppner boys settled down to play
hard, tight ball, holding Wasco
scoreless until the seventh inning
and meanwhile scoring ten runs ( to
lead ii to a. Wasco tied it up
with a three-run outburst in the
eighth inning, but Heppner came
back with four more runs to
stretch the lead to 15 to 11. A
would-be Wasco rally in the ninth
was nipped short when McCurdy
struck out the last man after one
run had crossed the plate.
Ray Massey was the big gun at
the plate for Heppner. On two oo
casions he smashed balls into the
right center field fence for doubles
Van Horn, Hoyt and Hayes also
garnered two hits each.
Jack Miller pitched the first five
innings for the Legionnaires and
gave way to Harlan McCurdy who
pitched the last four. McCurdy had
the Wasco batters on his hip most
of the time, striking out seven in
four innings.
Next on the schedule for Hepp
ner is Arlington. The game will be
played Sunday at Arlington.
OUT OF NAVY
Three Morrow county enlistees
who served with the navy during
the war received discharge papers
at Bremerton last week. Kenneth
E. Bailey, SM2c, son of Mr. and
Mrs. N. D. Bailey of Heppner; John
Skuzeski, EM2c, son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Skuzeski of Carson, Wash.,
for many years residents of Hepp
ner, and Donald Peterson, MM3c,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar E. Pe
terson of lone, have returned to
their respective homes to again
take up civilian life.
year, mis pieiwrv
visit The oil
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9, 1946
HEAR YE! HEAR YE!
SATURDAY MAY 11 IS
STRAW HAT DAY
Come rain or shine, Saturday,
May 11, has been definitely declar
ed as the date for opening the straw
hat season in Heppner. The mayor
has not so proclaimed, but dealers
who furnish their customers with
straw fedoras are taking the re
sponsibility of naming the day.
So come Saturday morning it
will be meet and right that you
get out the old panama and dust
it off, or lacking such a head piece,
there is little doubt that tha afore
said dealers will deem it a great
pleasure to show you wliat you
should wear on sunshiny days.
Coal Strike Hits
Postal Service
Postmaster Joe Aiken is in
re-
ceipt of a telegram from Uie post
master general stating that as of
midnight tonight a reduction in
weight and size of parcel post
packages will go into effect. 'i'his
reduction is directly due to the
coal strike in the east, which has
necessitated a sharp cut in train
service.
Parcels weighing more than 11
pounds or measuring over GO inch
es in length and girth are not to
be accepted for mailing until fur
ther orders.
The postmaster general was
scheduled to speak over the radio
from 5 to 6 p. m. today and all
postmasters have been askeo to
listen in to receive instructions.
Loan Association
Meets Here Today
The Morrow Countv National
Farm Loan association held its an
nual meeting in Heppner today,
attended by between 45 and 50
members. The meeting was held at
the parish house of All Saints
Episcopal church, where the ladies
of the church served an excellent
dinner.
Arnold Anderson of the Federal
Land Bank of . Spokane was the
principal speaker and entertain
ment features consisted of a piano
solo by Terry Thompson and two
nuhibers by Everett Smith's in
strumental ensemble from the
school.
Ralph H. Loveless of Pendleton
is secretary-treasurer of the assO'
ciation. Walter Moore, ma lager of
the Pendleton Production Credit
association, was an interested vis
itor.
OREGON COAST
five full-color photograph of ecenlo view of tkej
West that Standard of California will tflatributo at
remind travelers ef the beauty spoto they sHomM
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Volume 63, Number 7
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Budget For Fiscal
Year Adopted By '
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Committee Monday
Slight Increase
Necessary to Meet
Advancing Costs
Heppner's budget for the ensu
ing fiscal year calls for a slight in
crease in expenditures and possi
bly a little more taxes if the people
approve the figures adopted by the
council and budget committee Mon
day evening Estimated expenditures
amount to $33,100, which is $3,270
more than the current year.
Were it not for the fact that the
bond redemption payment was re
duced from $7,000 to $4,000, it
would not bave been possible to
favor some of the projects and
meet salary raises that the trend
of the times imposes. Salary allow
lowances were made only where
additional services may be needed,
such as police protection. Improve
ments to public buildings and pro
perty, or repairs to same came in
for a little more generous allot
ment, but in most instances the
budget followed last year's esti
mates.
Monday evening saw quite a grist
of business come before the coun
cil. Jack O'Connor and Rev. Flet
cher Forster, representing the
chamber of commerce and other ci
vic bodies, presented a plea for
funds to finish the swim tank
building. The city agreed to pay for
materials and the civic groups will
raise the funds necessary to pay
for labor.
Conley Lanham and Frank Da
vis, representing the chamber of
commerce, presented the proposal
for finishing Main street sidewalks
out to the curbs. They were auth
orized to canvas the property own
ers and try to get 100 percent co
operation and failing in this the
city may pass an ordinance provid
ing for the work and the collection
of funds to pay for same.
It was agreed that the city would
go in on a 50-50 basis with the
county in clarifying certain lots in
the Mt. Vernon addition to the city
of Heppner.
Mayor Turner announced that all
is in readiness for drilling the new
city well. Easements have been se
cured from Frank Monahan and J.
G. Barratt, and a road has been
graded to the well. A contract has
been signed with A. M. Edwards,
Lexington well driller, who will
start operations here as soon as he
has completed drilling a well at
Echo. Discussion of the well
brought to light the necessity for
an additional reservoir and the
building of a sewer system.
The mayor also reported that he
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nau prepared ana lor.varaen a
Liief on the Heppner flood situa
tion to the city's representative in
Washington, J. G. Crawford and
that the proposed dam will be giv-
en a hearing May 22 or thereabouts.
Telegrams have been forwarded
i he congressional delegation urging
jupport of the dam. In the mean
lime, some of the needed and con
templated improvements in town are
being held back until it is known
what will be done about the pro
ject. Foui building permits, all for
residences, were issued. R. E. Tho
mas, $3500; A. J. Westhoff, $2500; K.
L. Blake, $4,000, and L. M. Smith,
$1500. Blake has since applied for
another permit to construct a
dwelling.
IONE MAN ENLISTS
The U. S. army recruiting office
in Pendleton announced the enlist
ment of Mineth E. McClain, Box
205, lone. He enlisted for duty with
the medical corps since he already
had five years in the army as a
medical technician with 30 months
overseas. Hi sister, Pansy Ekstroav
lives la ba.
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