2-Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon, July 10, 1947
EDITORIAL
Looks Like Activity
For many months there has been planning for
Improvements of one kind or another but never
sny definite steps tn the direction of actual ac
complishment. That period appears to have run
Its course and we are definitely entered upon
a period of activity. One job, the construction of
a new reservoir, is well under way and the city
has contracted to have the new water mains laid,
work that more than likely will be finished
early In August.
Definite action on the hospital is seen in the
move made early this week to have plans altered
to fit the funds in hand. There will be no more
dH i' in attempting to get more funds, either by
direct taxation or through a federal grant The
hospital committee has acceded to the demands
of the people and will build the best possible
hospital with funds on hand. This means a
smaller building than originally planned but
doubtless will be adequate for the present If it
proves inadequate there will be time to raise
more funds and make additions to suit the
demand.
Action of the city council Monday evening
instructing the city attorney to contact the coun
ty attorney for the purpose of consummating the
much discussed city-county property trade should
clear the way for the county fair board to do
some definite planning for the establishment of
a general fair. To date, the board has laid noth
ing more than tentative plan9 for a 4-H club fair
and while it may not be possible to do more
than that this year, it will be possible to prepare
for the development of the property and get
things going for next year.
Now If a housing campaign can be gotten
under way to provide living quarters for the
people actually in need of homes we will really
be getting the wheels of progress in motion.
A Good Celebration
It is seldom that a community as small as
Lexington puts on as good a celebration as the
one which came to a close there Saturday eve
ning. It was a successful affair and one in which
the community can well be proud. The program
on the Fourth was particularly good, with en
ough events to keep the crowds entertained. The
parade was a creditable opening for the cele
bration, enlivened by the presence of a good
band, and the airshow and ball game in the
afternoon provided good clean entertainment.
There Is a lot of work connected with a cele
bration, a heap of preparation for such a short
period, and attending one also takes its toll of
one's energy, so that one day is about as long
as the average person can maintain an active
interest With this thought in mind it might not
be out of line to suggest that one day crowded
with events for the people to attend would be
more profitable than a two-day celebration. In
other words an all-home talent affair given for
the people of the county would cost less to put
on and should bring a bigger net profit.
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Much Ado About Nothing?
There must be some merit to all this hulla
balloo about flying discs or the news interest
would subside. Not having seen one of the things,
or knowing no one who has has seen one, we are
not in a position to pooh pooh the idea or declare
in its favor. So we must wait until the right
answer comes along. If certain parties had re
ported seeing the flying saucers, plates, wash
tubs or houses whatever they may be we might
caution them about imbibing too freely of spirits
fermenti, but since all classes of people have
reported seeing them we must still wait for the
right answer or go out looking for one.
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30 YEARS AGO
From Heppner Gazette Times
July 12, 1917
A. P. Hughes, farmer and
stockman of Little Butter creek,
was transacting business in
Heppner Wednesday.
Oscar Keithley and Lawrence
Redding were in town the last
of the week to get one of those
new two-man harvesters.
F. J. Leonard, Portland con
tractor, arrived in the city Sun
day to take up the work on the
new First National Bank building.
W. E. Straight and John Bros
! nan of Lena delivered four cars
of prime beef cattle in Portland
Monday.
The three months old son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Moyer died
at the family home in Black
horse July 7.
Frank W. Turner went to Hot
Lak,e sanatorium to take a
course of treatmens for rheuma
tism. About 35 people gathered at
the Harry Turner ranch in Sand
Veterans
Learn to Fly
Flight training courses under the
G I "Bill of Rights" are being
given by the Forsythe Flying Ser
vice at Lexington.
Come to the Airport or call Lex
ington 37 F $ for enrollment or
information.
Hollow for a Fourth of July eel
ebration.
A party of Heppner men, C. E
Woodson, W. W. Smead, J. L
Wilkins and W. G. McCarty went
to Pendleton and Walla Walla
last Friday to investigate var
ious kinds of street paving.
Stewart Valentine, son of
Chas. Valentine was kicked by
a horse in the barn lot at the
Valentine home.
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W. E. Leach of Lexington lies
very ill at the Heppner sanator
ium. He was operated upon Sat
urday evening and since that
time has been very low.
Now that the bulk handling of
grain in Morrow county is about
to be universally adopted, many
types of wagon bins and field
bins are being introduced.
SUMMER FOREST RULES
NOW IN EFFECT
The usual summer restrictions
are now in effect in all national
forests. These restrictions in
clude the following rules: No
smoking while traveling except
on highways; campfire permits
are required for all areas in the
Heppner vicinity, and the carry
ing of the following firefighting
tools by car or horseback travel
ers axe, bucket and shovel.
All forest users are urged to
extinguish their campfires and
cigarettes.
o
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Dubok
of Oregon City visited Mr. and
Mrs. Carey Hastings and Mr. and
Mrs. Victor Johnson the first of
the week, returning home Mon
day.
Rita Dell and Carolyn Johnson
have returned home from Boise.
Idaho, where they visited relatives.
A Lovely Way
to Express
Devotion
Her engagement diamond is more than
Juit a gift It will be a source of Joy and
pride through all the years ahead. Choose it here from
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ROAD BUILDING PROGRAM
HIT
Oregon's luck with congress
seems to be based on "Tails we
lose, heads you win."
With a solid republican dele
gation in congress we will get
the deepest cuts in appropria
tions we have had for twenty
vears.
For the past decade Oregon
congressmen have alibied their
inability to secure Oregon's jus
tifiable share of forest road
funds with "what can we do
with a republican congress?
With timber sales receipts now
seven times what they were ten
years ago and 49 percent of the
standing timber in national for
ests of the western states that
border highways being within
this state, Oregon is likely to re
ceive from a republican congress
only $70,000 of the required $3,
500,000 sought for forest roads.
The failure of congress to in
crease forest road funds will ser
iously retard Oregon's highway
program, State Highway Engi
neer R. H. Baldock said after
retuyiing from Washington, D.
C, where he appeared before
congressional road committees
last week.
JUTICE'S SUMMER RECESS
The Oregon supreme court
'landed down a decision this
iveek setting aside a judgment
'or $39,349 in favor of a seaman
n his suit against the Burns De
ective agency. In setting aside
the judgment the high court re
ersed a decree by Judge James
R. Bain and the case was order
ed retried.
The judges' retirement fund
created by the 1943 legislature
now has to its credit $19,022 as
compared with $38,214 a year
.igo. The fund is created by
withholdings from judges' sal
aries which are matched by the
tate. During the past year $14,
404 was withheld from circuit
iudges' salaries and S5314 from
supreme court justices' salaries.
APPOINTMENTS AND
REAPPOINTMENTS
During the past week Gover
nor Earl Snell made three ap
pointments and four reappoint
ments to state positions. The ap
pointments were provided for
by an act of the 1947 legislature
creating new district courts in
counties having over 50,000 and
less than 200,000 population and
that the appointments must be
those serving as justices of the
peace in those counties.
The authority of the legisla
ture to designate who should be
Tppointed was questioned by
the attorney general. To avoid
legal entanglements the justices
of peace resigned. The governor
hen appointed Joseph B. Felton,
judge of the district court of
Marion county; John Bryson, as
judge of the district court for
Lane county and Paul C. Fisch
er, Oregon City as judge of the
district court of Clackamas
county.
The four reappointments were
A. F. Hayes and E. A. Mc
Cornack as members of the state
hoard of agriculture; B. F. Ruff
ner as a member of the Oregon
state board of aeronautics; Dr.
Bruce A. Bedynek as a member
of the state naturopathic board
of examiners and Frank L. Em
ory as a member of the public
employees retirement board.
GIFFORD FILM PREMIER
The first meeting of the color
ed sound moving picture of Ore
gon state parks was attended
here Monday by many state of
ficials. The colored photography
was by the late Ralph Clifford,
chief photographer for the state
highway department travel div
ision for the past 12 years. The
Oregon parks picture was the
last colored film he made. Mr.
Gifford held international fame
as a photographer of Oregon
scenery and was a son of a re
nowned photographer of Oregon
scenery. The audience stood with
bowed heads in his memory be
fore the picture was shown as a
token of respect and friendship.
CAPITAL TOPICS
Referendums against the leg
islative enacted cigarette tax
and the power bill which was
passed oner the governor's veto
were verified by the state de
partment of elections Monday.
...State police school will open
Sunday at Oregon vocational
school at Klamath Falls The
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
company have asked Oregon's
public utility commissioner for
rate increases totaling $2,249,000.
A two-weeks hearing on the re
quest started at the capital Mon
day. . . A campaign for an elec
tion on the proposal to put the
state of Oregon into the auto
mobile insurance business has
been started here The state
agricultural department's early
prediction of "only a normal
yield of farm products," is being
verified by late reports.
Club
Ronald Baker, lone, club mem
ber of the Morrow county beef
club has recently been notified
by Safeway Stores that his
Shorthorn steer purchased by
them at the Eastern Oregon
Wheat League 4-H fat show and
sale graded U. S. prime when
slaughtered.
Safeway Stores have congratu
lated Ronald on the excellent
job that he did in feeding out
the beef animal for sale. The
Shorthorn steer was purchased
from the Sherman-Ferguson herd
of Heppner and put on feed Oc
tober 21, being fed until May 28,
when sold at the weight of 970
pounds, selling at 36 cents a
pound.
The steer was fed on a ration
consisting of 78 percent wheat
with molasses, barlev and nrn.
tein supplement makmg up the
remainder of the grain ration.
Frank Anderson, Heppner, gets
the distinction of being the first
Morrow county breeder to offer
4-H beef project calves for the
1947-48 club year. A few weeks
ago Frank let us pick three
calves from his purebred herd of
Herefords to be fed and market
ed by 4-H club members.
Ingrid Herman, lone, fed out
one of his Hereford calves dur
ing this club year, selling the
animal at the Eastern Oregon
Wheat league 4-H fat show and
sale on May 28. The calf, put on
feed last October, weighed 1020
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LEXINGTON ...
By Mrs. Clarence Hayes
A large crowd attended the
celebration In Lexington on the
Fourth of July and everyone re
ported a good time. The day
started with the parade at 10 a.
m. It was headed by the com
bined Heppner and Lexington
bands directed by Bill Cochell
of Heppner. There were quite a
few interesting floats with the
Amicitia club float winning first
prize. The 3-links club ran a
close second and the Odd Fel
lows float won third prize. The
Wranglers riding club of Hepp
ner rode in the parade.
The children and grown-ups
as well enjoyed the home tal
ent carnival which ran all day.
The air show and ball games
were both well attended. The
smoker did not draw as big a
crowd as expected, however.
The dances on the evenings of
the Fourth and Fifth were big
successes with Hazel Fisher's or
chestra playing.
Miss Mary Alice Coch of Em
poria, Kansas, is a house guest
of Mr. and Mrs. Sam McMillan.
Mrs. Mary Valentine of Port
land, former resident of this
community, was visiting friends
here on the Fourth.
Mr. and Mrs. Buster Swift and
son of Pomeroy. Wash., were
here for the celebration over the'
holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dinges
went to Hood River Tuesday to
meet their son Dan and to get
their car.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Hill and
'amily of Portland are visiting
at the S. G. McMillan home.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Jones and
"amily went to La Grande and
Union Sunday. They were ac
companied home Monday by
Miss Dorothy Miller who will
spend a few weeks visiting here.
Mrs. Mary (Cypert) Hall and
'aughter and son-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. Gene Ghewrat, and
their daughter Susan of Califor
nia were Fourth of July guests
at the home of their cousins.
Dona Barnet and Trina Parker.
Mr. and Mrs. Welcome McAll
ister of Pennsylvania, who have
been visiting their father, Ray
McAllister in Heppner the past
veek, were visiting with friends
in Lexington on the Fourth.
Mi.-s Elsie Tucker of Stanfield
was here to celebrate the Fourth
of July. Miss Tucker is a teach
t in the Corvallis schools.
Rev. and Mrs. Elbert Moreland
and family have returned from a
short vacation spent in Mt. Rai
nier, Onalaska, Wash., and Port
land. Mrs. Moreland's father,
Leon M. Fisher of Grafton, Vt.,
who is their house guest, ac
companied them on the trip.
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Steagall
and family of Lebanon were
guests at the Oscar Breeding
home and spent the Fourth and
the week end visiting friends
and relatives.
Many Lexington people at
tended the dance in lone Mon
day to hear Glen Gray's orches
tra. Those attending included
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Carmichael,
Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Yarnell, Mrs.
Ralph Jackson and daughters
Marcella and Carol, Mrs. Herman
Green, Mrs. Pete Klinger, Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Forsythe, Clar
ence Buchanan, Betty Smethurst,
Dorothy, Vesta and Fay. Cuts
forth, June Van Winkle, Louise
Hunt, Mr. and Mrs. Orris Pad
berg, Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Pad
berg and Bill Van'Winkle.
Mr. and Mrs. Ladd Sherman
and daughter of Hermiston and
Mr. and Mrs. Walt Eubanks of
Arlington spent the Fifth of Ju
ly visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. C.
Carmichael. House-guests of the
Carmichaels over the week end
were Mr. and Mrs. Otto Leathers
and Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Emry of
Vancouver and Mr. and Mrs.
Owen Leathers and son of Kin
zua. Clarence Buchanan arrived
home around the first of thp
month, having received his dis
charge from the army. He was
recently on guard duty in Japan.
pounds, grading choice and sell- j
ing for 51 cents a pound on the '
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Meets First Monday Each Month
Citizens having matters for discus
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sale. Frank is proud of this rec
ord and is offering Ingrid a calf
again this year to be fed out
during the club year.
Mrs. Isabella Templeton and
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Johnson vis
ited the Leslie Rasmus family
at Lynden, Wash., Wednesday
of last week. They went Into
Vancouver, B. C. for the 4th, re
turning home Sunday.
July 14
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