2-Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon, January 9, 1947
EDITORIAL
30 YEARS M?
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
There appears to be but one alternative, and
that is to vote a special road tax. Several pro.n
inent farmers started a move last fall to get a
special tax on the ballot but failed to follow
through. They proposed a five-mill tax for a
period of five years to provide ample fands to
give each district in the county a year round
road. One of these road backers said, "We've
voted a hundred thousand dollars or better to
build a county hospital. What good will it be
to a farmer if he needs to get a member of l is
family to the hospital in an emergency and can't
get his car out to the highway? The next thing
is to get roads, not only to reach the hospital
but for our year around needs." ,
If the court is to meet this demand tor road
'improvement it will not be surprising if steps
are taken to call a special election. If that oc
curs, let it be remembered that the court is. mere
ly trying to meet your request .
Our Representatives
Most of the voters in the twenty-second repre
sentative district are personally acquainted with
our representatives and anything this column
might have to say would be adding little to
that already known about them. However, it
might be interesting to give the viewpoint of
another publication and in the Oregon Voter's
biennial resume of House and Senate the follow
ing brief statistical and biographical accounts
are found:
Giles French: Representative 22d District, Gil
liam, Morrow, Sherman and Wheeler Counties,
1935 (speciaO, 1937, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1945, 1947;
Republican. Publisher-Editor, Moro.
Giles L. French, Moro publisher, now numbers
among the real seniors of the House . . . ready for
his 7lh session. Is a doughty veteran of many
legislative battles, not noted for surrender. Is
publisher of Sherman County Journal, perennial
mayor of Moro (since 1922), CofC executive; War
Bond chairman, state GOP committeeman and
offices in party organization; past prez and vice
prez Oregon Newspaper Publishers association.
Was in chemical warfare service in 191S. Was
Sherman county wheat grower 9 years, machin
ery salesman 4 years, thereafter county seat
publisher. Son was a casualty in late war.
Was born Christmas eve of the year 1S94, near
Grass Valley. Attended shools in several Oregon
towns, finishing HS at Forest Grove and having
2 years at UofO. Married, 2 children. Belongs
to Legion, CofC, Sigma Upsilon. In 1945 session
was hard-working chairman Taxation and Rev
enue committee; author HB SO (Rural School Dis
tricts) approved by voters in November. Valuable
courageous legislator; was considered for speak
er by some colleagues but made no real try for it
Henry E. Peterson: 1943, 1945, 1947; Republi
can U'hpat (rrnu'pr. Tnne.
. . , the canyon to prevent spread of fire from burn
Henrv Peterson, lone wheat grower, is a very J " jt
quiet and modest man and legislator . . . does not
take the floor or participate in debate, neverthe
less keeps informed. Was in famed 41st Division
(162d Regiment) in its overseas service in war
of Wilhelm, the Kaiser. Has been commander
Heppner Legion post... is director Heppner Soil
Conservation district and vice-chairman Morrow
County Farm Bureau.
On Sept 27, 1S94 he entered the Peterson fam
ily (his parents natives of Sweden) on its wheat
farm near lone. Attended Heppner High school.
Married, 4 children. Member Masons, Elks, VFW,
Rhea Creek Grange (master), triple A commit
tee. Has been school director for several years
and GOP precinct committeeman; runs so much
like one of his jackrabbits the democrats have
quit competing with him.
This is an estimate of our legislators WTitten
by a man who seldom misses a session and who
is frank in expressing his opinions, Editor C. C.
Chapman.
(From the files of the Gazette
Times of January 4, 1917.)
City's Finances Healthy
When J. O. Turner assumed the office "of mayor
of Heppner in 1940 he inherited a city indebted
ness of $57,000. As his term drew to a close De
cember 31, 1946 the city had a bonded indebted
ness of $5,000 and a combined sinking fund
street fund, bonds and cash in the sum of ap
proximately $36,000. It was the former mayor's
policy, concurred in by a majority of the council,
to collect the money first and spend it after
wards. By following that policy, the city's fin
ances have been put in good shape.
In a letter to the incoming mayor and new
councilmen, Mr. Turner recommends improve
ment of the city dumping ground, with possibly
the installation of an incinerator or at least
construction of concrete walls on either side of
ing rubbish. In connection with the new city
well he states that water should be flowing from
the well for vhich the city has a contract with
A. M. Edwards by summer 1947. He urges con
a sewer system, cost of which at present ap
pears prohibitive.
Concluding his letter to the mayor and coun
cil, Mr. Turner said:
"To the new members of the council and the
new mayor, just being installed, I want to ex
press my appreciation for your philanthropic
spirit. The distinction of a seasoned councilman
cannot be attained in a day, but must be ac
quired by a long term of learning the city's
problems and the nature and character of the
citizens whom you shall serve. You are to be
congratulated on your zeal to commence an
apprenticeship of free service in the community
in which you live, to work for the betterment of
your own home town without remuneration, fav
or, or any particular honor or distinction. I be
speak the confident hope that you will serve
your time as I have attempted to serve mine
and when you have finished your time, you too,
will feel that you have done your fair share in
the development of the old home town."
The first peace-time legisla
ture since 1941 is facing a fin
ancial enigma depression in
reverse. Next week they will
swamp themselves with bills
the pile top heavy with political
measures! The destiny of the
greater portion of the mass of
bills will depend on the form
state financing takes. It all
would be very simple and ag
reeable, to these lawmakers, "a
cross-section of the intellect of
the .state," if they authorize the
ways and means committee to
photostat the graph of present
revenues and label the print
"expenditures for the 1947-49
biennium." The principal diffi
culty with this elementary plan
is that state revenues are now
at a high peak but no one
knows what the graph of the
revenues will look like along
about this time next year. A;
soon as the pattern for financ
ing the state is sketched the
real business we have always
known as "legislative affairs"
will start. The boys will begin
the aged rumpusing routine with
their old toys: trucks, fishnets,
milk bottles, slot machines, etc.,
etc.
VETERANS WIN A HOME WAR
Veterans of World War II
know how to make democracy
work, even if. they neglect to
have more than a feeble repre
sentation of candidates on the
Novembe- ballot, they have just
shown proof of their political
know how.
Three months ago Oregon vet
erans were being given the go
by in the matter of war sur
plus commodities. Now there is
an equal spread of supply. A
veteran can get a sleeping Dag
without getting the brush-ott
with, "they are sold in lots of
inn onlv." When appeals to
brass-hat-higher - ups got no
where they started working on
their own cases with letters to
congress and vox populi letters
to newspapers. The groundsweu
they created brought the goods
Heppner dairymen featured
prominently in the poultry show
held in Dayton, Wash., last
week. Wightman Bros, entered
25 Barred Rocks and Claude Cox
entered 25 White Wyandottes.
Mr. Cox won prizes and tied for
first for the best in the show.
Wightman Bros, won the dis
tinction of having the highest!
scoring bird Judge Nelson ever
judged. Wightmans walked
away witn nearly everytning in
the Barred Rock class.
J. W. Cradick, a Morrow coun
ty pioneer, passed away at hisl
home on Hale Ridge after a
lingering illness of many mon
ths. Married at Pendleton Miss
Mary Corrigall and Fred Hos
kins, both of whom live near
Stanfield, were married quietly
in Pendleton last Thursday eve
ning. Basketball Team Goes on Long
Trip Heppner high school bas
ketball team left Wednesday
for Sherman county where they
will meet two of the fastest
teams in the state Moro and
Grass Valley. Those making the
trip are Emmett Hughes, center;
LBill Crawford and Leo Nichol
son, forwards; Henry Peterson
and Brown, guards, and Garnet
Barratt, substitute.
HEPPNER JOS. J. NYS
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ATTORNEY AT LAW
Meets Every Monday Noon at the peteri Buildinfc Willow Street
LllCQS Place Heppner. Oregon
lone Men Form Livestock
Company A new organization
in lone is the Johnson Livestock
company, A. E. Johnson and J.
T. Knappenherg being the in
corporators. They will go into
the raising of high grade stock.
Dr. Chick reports the arrival
of an eight pound daughter at
the country home of Mr. and
Mrs. Somers E. McDermott on
Dec. 30.
Snow is all gone around this
place the Chinook of the past
two days has taken it all off.
There is a lot of Irost in the
ground and it will take several
warm days to drive it cut.
FOR SALE Nice winter apples
at $1 per sack at the C P. Bow
man ranch on Butter creek.
Veterans of Foreign
Wars
Meetings 2nd and 4th Mondayi at
8:00 p. m. in Leifion Hall
J. O. TURNER
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Phone 173
Hotel Heppner Building
Heppner, Oregon
0. M. YEAGER
CONTRACTOR & BUILDER
All kinds of carpenter work.
Modern Homes Built or Remodeled
Phone 1483 415 Jones St.
HEPPNER, OREGON
Road Fund Insufficient
How to meet a growing demand for road im
provement and a vastly increased cost of mater
ials and machinery as well as the necessity of
keeping in line with the wage and salary scales
with a limited road fund is a matter furrowing
the brows of the county court personnel. It is
similar to trying to satiate a champagne appe
tite on a beer salary, if we may be permitted to
use an unliterary simile.
Road funds available to the court are approx
imately $50,000. Road equipment wears out and
that bought prior to the war must be replaced.
Anyone knowing machinery or having had to
buy equipment the past few years is well aware
what has been done to the prices. They have
soared skyward and there is no indication that
they will be coming down in the immediate, fu
ture. While this has been going on for several
years, the county's road fund has remained sta
tionary. The court has made one raise of fifty
cents per day to each of the members of the road
crew making an annual increase of three thou
sand dollars or more in the labor column of the
budget This may have to be repeated, inasmuch
as workers have to meet' higher living costs. In
the meantime, the county roads are not getting
the attention they need.
As an example of increased machinery costs, it
is pointed out that one piece of equipment which
cost $5300 in 1939 or 1940 now costs $13,000 plus.
Trucks are much higher. Yet, in order to carry
on the work effectively, this equipment must be
im-imi..,i Tin. noint is that after the needed
equipment is purhased and wage raises are met quota for Morrow county. This county needs no
tinuance of Die Unking fund for construction of quota. It needs only an incentive, and the infan-
there is little left with which to carry on the tile paralysis menace provides plenty of incen-
actual road improvement. tive.
LEAVE ON VACATION
Mr. and 'Mrs. J. F. Lucas and
Mrs. Sarah McNamer left Wed
nesday in Mrs. McNamer's car
for Portland on the first leg of
a vacation trip which will keep
them away from home for five
or six weeks. Ultimate destin
ation is Arizona and the Hepp-
HAD NICE TRIP
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Engkraf,
Accompanied by their daugh
ters, Beverley, Nadine and Joan.
and Robert Kilkenny, returned
last week from a trip to San
Bernardino, Calif., where they
spent the holidays with Mrs.
Engkraf's sister and husband,
Mr. and Mrs. George Clemens.
Mrs. Engkraf's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. H. H. Fouts of Fossil, also
were in the party. Enron le they
stopped at Oakland to see young
Kilkenny's sister, Mrs. Kotierl
Lillivan, the former Mae Kil
kenny. They also visited a cou
sin of Mrs. Engkraf's in Oak
land whom she had not seen in
25 years, Mrs. William Rhodes
who lives just a few blocks from
the Lillivans. The Oregon folks
visited at Palm Spings where
the young folks get quite a thrill
nn seeins a movie actress in
the flesh Elizabeth Taylor
There was a trip to Lake Arrow
head and enroute home they
saw many dates being harvested
at Indio.
BOARDMAN
Turner, Van Marter
and Company
GENERAL
INSURANCE
P. W. MAHONEY
Attorney at Law
GENERAL INSURANCE
Heppner Hotel Bulldina
Willow Street Entrance
J. O. PETERSON
Latest Jewelry and Gift Goods
Watches, Clocks, Diamonds
Expert Watch & Jewelry Repairing:
Heppner. Oregon
We Must Not Forget
Starting next Wednesday, the National Infan
tile Paralysis Foundation will seek to raise a
large fund with which to carry on the campaign
against the dread poliomyelitis. Every citizen
and every civic organization will be asked to
contribute to this worthy cause in an effort to
check spread of the disease and to provide ample
facilities to care for those afflicted.
Of local interest is the fact that fifty percent
of the fund raised here will remain at home for
use when needed. While polio cases are rare in
this county there remains the possibility of an
outbreak and care of these cases is expensive
about $1200 a case and it would require not
more than two or three to deplete the fund. There
is a fund on hand at present and it should be
increased as rapidly as possible. Occasion might
arise when this fund could be used to assist in
caring for patients in other centers with assur
ance that the national foundation would reim
burse the local fund.
In any event, don't lose sight of the fact that
the call for help is a justifiable one. The steps
taken to combat this dreaded disease which in
1946 claimed 25,000 new victims may be followed
up with geater efforts to find the cause and de
velop methods for its eradication. There is no
ner folks will join Mr. and Mrs.
F. R. Former at Portland and
make the trip in their car. Mr.
Lucas's and Mrs. Fortner's bro
ther, Frank Lucas, lives at Yu
ma where some time will be
spent. In the absence of the
proprietors, the Lucas Place will
be closed, with the reopening
date set at Feb. 20.
Avoid Annoyance And Discomfort:
due to a clogged septic tank or cesspool.
I have purchased a tank pump and am in
position to give prompt, efficient service.
Phone 702
HOWARD KEITHLEY
CRAFT IN WOODWORK
REPORTS ON ACTIVITIES
The craft woodworking club
at Boardman has 8 members.
Officers are Jerry Beaver, presi
dent; Lynn Gillespie, vice-president;
Robert Former, secretary,
and Lynn Gillespie, reporter.
Wilbur Piat has finished a
pair of book ends and a knife
rack.
Larry Thorpe has finished a
knife rack and is starting a let
ter holder.
Lynn Gillespie has finished
a pair of book ends and a Knife
rack.
Jerry Beaver, Franklin Dela
no, Ernest Adams are working
on knife racks. Robert Fortner
has finished one knife rack.
We have a new member in
our club, His name is Donald
Green and he Is from Corbett
Lynn Gillespie, Reporter.
M. Montgomery, Leader.
COLLEGE OF FAIRS
Leo "Starts Labor Day" Spitz
bart, manager of the Oregon
State Fair, will be one of a panel
of 56 speakers at the college of
fairs of western states and Can
ada to be held at San Louis Ob
ispo, California, February 17 to
21. Over 400 representatives ol
western fairs are scheduled to
attend the novel college which
is sponsored by the Western
Fairs Association.
VOCATIONAL SCHOOL
SUSPENSE
Oregon may not accept the
offer of the federal government
to donate to the state the great
Klamath Falls marine base with
its 734 acres and 65 major build
ings. Last September when the
offer was first made the gov
ernment dangled the proposed,, agriculture. He was named
gift before state officials with- or a four.year term. At the
out strings of any sort apparent, same time the governor rcap.
and with a "take it now or nev- inted Arthur c Lundherg of
taxpayers about $30,000. They
were 'purchased from t're War
Assets administration to be add
er to the commissary stock of
the Oregon state hospital, East
ern Oregon state hospital. Fair
view home and the state train
ing school for boys. The Gl bro
gues were brought from Camp
Adair where they were piled
more than six feet high with
the 72,970 mismated shoes pair
ed and sorted as to size and
width. They are expected to lil
the need for this type of shoes
for a period of five years at the
state institutions for whicn they
were bought. The purchase price
to the state was $3090.
GUBERNATORIAL
APPOINTMENTS
Governor Earl Snell announc
ed this week the reappointmen
of Paul H. Spillman, Powel
Butte, as a member of the state
board of education, represent-
er attitude. A oriel time limit
was set in which the state could
apply for possession. It did so
promptly after hurried meetings
and surveys.
After the suspense of waiting
three months a dispatch came
this week from Washington
dripping with red tape. The
Real Property division of the
War Assets administration re
ports that it has approved the
donation. Then following the
"fine print," and provisos, the
property must be used for 25
years as a vocational school,
and limits other uses. The state
must pay all "external costs."
Then comes the typical bureau
cratic phrase: "the considera
tion is nominal."
Another letter to Washington.
Another three months suspense.
THIRTY TONS OF SHOES
More than 17,000 pairs of
shoes have just been purchased
by the state that will save the
Tillamook and Kenneth W. Hoi
man, of Portland, as members
of the state board of funeral rii
rectors and embalmers. They
were appointed for two-year
terms.
The wedding of Roy (Buddy)
Ball and Gloria O'Day came as
a surprise to their friends. They
were married Sunday, Dec. 9,
in Portland. Buddy is the eldest
son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ball Sr.
He has been in service for
some three years and served
most of this time overseas. He
r-ceived his discharge last Oc
tober. Mrs. Ball is the grand
daughter of Mrs. Algy Taylor
and has been attending high
school here. The young couple
will make their home in Pen
dleton.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Dull of Cor-
vallis stopped over Friday for
a short visit with Mr. and Mrs.
Leo Root, enroute home after a
time in Walla Walla. Mrs. Dull
will be remembered as Edith
Duesse and is a niece of Mrs.
Root.
Some person or persons seem
to be enjoying themselves by
breaking into houses during the
occupants' absence. The resi
dents would like to have this
stopped, but so far little has
been done. Homes entered late
ly are the Ray Brown, Claud
Coats and Chas. Stoltnow.
Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Flock re
turned to their home in Eugene
Sunday after spending the holi
days with Mrs. Flock's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kunze.
Mr. and Mrs. Art Allen had
as guests over the holidays, their
son Gene who is in the navy,
and Mrs. Aliens parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Rordahl of Los
Angeles. They returned to their
home last week. Gene went
back to Monterey camp, Calif.
College students home for the
holidays who left for school last
week are Vernon Russell and
Nick Taylor for OSC, Frances
Skoribo and Dagmar Skoubo for
University of Oregon, and Asta
Skoubo for Portland.
The sophomore class and their
adviser, Adrian Bechdolt, had
an ice skating party Sunday
evening on the pond back of the
Bechdolt place.
Mrs. Eva Warner celebrated
her 78th birthday Saturday and
received several surprises dur
ing the day. Mrs. Adolph Skou
bo made a lovely birthday cake
and presented to her in the af
ternoon, in trie evening some
of her neighbors assembled in
a party. They took in ice
Phelps Funeral Home OK Rubber Welders
FRANK ENGKRAr, Prop.
Licensed Funeral Directors
Phone 1S32 Heppner, Ore.
Heppner City Council
Meets First Monday Each Month
Citizens having matters for discus
sion, please bring before
the Council
J. O. TURNER, Mayor
VETERAN UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS DFH.IME
OCTOBER 14J
APRIL 1946
OCTOBER 1946
0 -
PEAK
Veteran! ol Votld Wat II drawing unemployment allowance!, after hitting a
peak of 1,808,000 last April, had declined to 1,027,300 by the end of Oc
tober, according to reports ly various Slate Unemployment Compensation Boards
to the Veterans Administration. Each figure In the above pictograph represents
800,000 claims.
SALE
l.Off
Saageff's Pharmacy
Morrow County
Abstract & Title Co.
INC.
ABSTRACTS OF TITLE
TITLE INSURANCE
Office in Peters Building
Merchants Credit
Bureau
Accurate Credit Information
F. B. Nickerson
Phone 12 Heppner
First class work guaranteed
Located In the Kane Building
North Main St. Heppner, Ore,
Dr. L. D. Tibbies
OSTEOPATHIC
Physician & Surgeon
First National Bank Building
Res. Ph. 1162 Office Ph. 4D2
A. D. McMurdo, M. D.
PHVSICLVN & SURGEON
Trained Nurse Assistant
Office in Masonic Building
Heppner, Oregon
Dr. C. C. Dunham
rimuiRAcric physician
Office up stairs I. O. O. F. Bldj
Houa; calls made
House Phone 2583 Office 2572
DR. S. E. ALLEN
ORTHODONTIST
225 Byers St. Pendleton, Ore.
1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each
month at Dr. R. C. Lawrence's
Office in Heppner
Blaine E. Isom
All Kinds of
INSURANCE
Phone 723
Heppner. Ore
cream and cookies and spent
the evening playing Chinese
checkers. Those present were
Mr. and Mrs. Leo Root, Mrs. Z.
J. Gillespie and sons Donald
and Lynn, Mrs Olive Melford
and Mrs. Claud oCats.
Mr. and Mrs. George Daniels
motored to Pendleton Monday.
Sunday night, Jan. 12, the Rev.
W. Winquist, Baptist minister of
Irrigon will preach the sermon
in the community church. Every
one is invited to come and hear
this sermon.
Mrs. Frank Davis is in St. Vin
cents hospital in Portland, this
Morrow County
Cleaners
Box 82, Heppner, Ore.
Phone 2632
Superior Dry Cleaning
& Finishing
week, taking treatments. She
expects to return home and to
her teaching by next Monday.
Mrs. Ed Bucknum is having
a tussle with the flu this week
and taking an enforced absence
from the Flower shop.
Get Those Plow Shares Treated
This Winter
Hardsurfaced shares save time, tractor fuellast lots
longer, and do a better plowing job.
Most big wheat farmers are using them. If you have
not tried them, ask your neighbor how he likes his.
Successful on both new and old shares.
HAROLD BECKET
Blacksmithing r Welding
It'sAlwaysFairWeather
when you haye a
Dri-Aird Drier
Let it rain, et is pour outside! The
proud owner of a Dri-aird Drier has no
washday worries! For this modern-as
-tomorrow drier in from 1 to 2 hours
dries the washing of a family of 4 to 6.
Placed conveniently in basement,
laundry, or utility room, the Dri-aird
eiminates clothes pins, musty damp
ness, April-shower-dodging and sprin
kling of clothes!
See this new laundry room innovation
on our floor. 80 feet of clothes drying
space. Priced at $174.50.
Heppner Hardware &
Electric