2-Hcppner Gozette Times, Heppner, Oregon, July 24, 1947-5
EDITORIAL . . . . . .
Put Out That Match
Once a year, at least, this column contains a
word of caution relative to forest and range fires.
It oven goes farther than that it includes field
fires. It is one of those strange phases of human
conduct that makes it necessary to repeat year
after year that which should be realized by every
human being and it leads one to wonder if the
repetition is productive of results. Be that as it
may, weather conditions provide the urge to
utter a few words for the protection of our great
natural, resources that are so easily wiped out
by fire.
The protectors of our forests and ranges are
prepared to battle the elements, for it is expected
that storms will give trouble here and there
throughout the timbered areas. When lightning
strikes, the smoke chasers know that not one
but perhaps several fires will start at once. They
must concentrate their efforts on combatting the
forces of nature, and this generally means cover
ing a wide area. It may be said that although
the foresters are constantly on the alert and keep
an anxious eye on the skies for signs of storms
their greatest worry is provoked by a hot, still
day when, as frequently happens, smoke is. seen
rising from a canyon harboring a favorite fish
ing stream. Or it may be coming from a higher
level along the course of a highway or a moun
tain road leading to a camping spot. Someone
forgot to drown the last smoldering embers of ;
a campfire or a careless smoker tossed a match j
out of the car window without first seeing that i
it could possibly do no damage. Or it may be ;
the thoughtless act of a pipe smoker in tapping I
out the dottle from the spent smoke before seeing
that no latent fire remained in the ash. I
There are many causes of fire on the range
and in the forest. Some fires seem to just start,
but this seldom occurs without some underlying
fact that becomes apparent to experienced for
esters and rangers. An act of human careless
ness usually comes to the surface before the in
vestigation ends. That's why it is necessary to
keep urging the public to abide by the rules
when using the forest or traveling through graz
ing land or grain fields. It also is the reason
for excluding certain hazardous forest districts
from public use during the worst fire period.
If you contemplate using the forest, see that
you are properly equipped. Don't try to evade
any of the regulations. Having done what is
necessary, if fire should break out where you
have been, either in camp or along the road, the
finger of suspicion will not be pointed at you.
If there is any consolation to be derived from
a disaster such as the one striking Pendleton
Monday it lies in the fact that it takes a pretty
good town to stage a half-million dollar fire.
Old Oregon electric Coaches Found
On Motorlog Into Cariboo Country
30 YEARS AGO
From Heppner Gazette Times
Oscar R. Otto, piano dealer, is
suffering severe injury to the
index and third fingers of his
right hand. In testing out the
speedometer of his car his fin
gers were caught in the coks
and badly torn.
The colony of campers on
Heppner's big playground along
the banks of upper Willow creek
in the timber belt is growing
daily. M. J. Bradford and wife,
Burl Gurdane and Ray Rogers,
and the Ed Adkins family are
among the latest to seek the cool
shade.
County Clerk Waters issued a
marriage license Monday to Eli
as P. Bowman of Eight Mile and
Edith Morey of Lexington.
Dan Engelman, well known
local painter, received a fracture
of his left arm near the elbow
in an accident at the Palace ho
tel Monday, when he was paint
ing the walls of the dining
room. The ladder spread out due
to the very slick floor, throwing
Mr. Engelman to the floor.
1. B. Sparks and wife left by
auto for Baker to spend their va
cation. During his absence, B.
G. Sigsbee is running the Star
theater.
Another street paving meet
ing was held in the council
chambers Tuesday evening.
Within a few days official lists
of the draft serial numbers
showing the order in which they
were drawn in the lottery at
Washington, will reach the var
ious county boards.
The families of C. E. Woodson
and Willard Herren are moving
today to their new camp just
above Herren's mill.
A new boy arrived Saturday
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gus
McMillan at Lexington.
Mrs. Jack Hynd entertained
all the young people of Cecil at
BUY HEPPNER PROPERTY
Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Lindstrom
of the Morgan area have purch
ased the residence property of
Mrs. Hazel Benge on Church
street in Heppner and will make
their home here. The Lindstroms
have farmed for many years on
their ranch north of Morgan and
will try to take life a little eas
ier from here on.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our neigh
bors for their assistance in fight
ing the fire which swept over
our fields last Friday, especial
ly those who rushed their trac
tors to the scene and did effec
tive work in checking the fire.
Mr. and Mrs. John Healy,
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kenny.
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NOTICE
No one but a fireman or a city
official is permitted to drive the
fire truck.
Blaine E. Isom, Fire Chief.
a fine chicken supper Sunday.
J. L. Hutchins is the new edi
tor of the lone Independent and
took over his new duties with
last week's edition.
I take pleasure in announcing the opening of
my real estate brokerage agency which will be
operated in connection 'with the services of
the Morrow County Abstract & Title Co., I nc.
in the Peters Building, Heppner.
Your listings and business confidence are re
spectfully solicited.
Francis B. Nickerson
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
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I AM WRITING this on a
sheet ol yellow foolscap in a
train berth. I am sitting up with
the pad on my knees. When I
flip out the little light in its
cupped niche, I can look down
on a dark and forbidding chasm.
Below us the Cheakamus river
thunders noisily to the sea. Its
succession of falls, peeling like
an organ, subdue the puffing of
our locomotive as it struggles
with the 2.2 grade.
These are solitudes one would
expect to breach only on foot,
or perhaps by horseback. This
is the granite backbone of
British Columbia, that vast
and fabulous domain which
stretches from the sub-Arctic to
Puget Sound, from the Pacific
ocean to the rim of the Canadi
an Rockies.
Into this granite labyrinth,
where a cavalry regiment or
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An unobstructed view of mountains for 347 miles Is offered
travelers from the open-air observation car of the North
Country limited. This car was constructed by sawing off top
structure of Oregon Electric car. Note coast range in distance.
Map shows route of combina
tion auto, boat and rail trip
from Portland to Quesnel.
scouting expedition might have
difficulty trekking its way, a
railroad has been built. It is the
most extraordinary railroad on
the North American continent.
Even its name stirs wonder and
curiosity the Pacific Great
Eastern.
Nor is the trip by rail the
sole incentive to undertake this
unique journey, ihe facmc
Great Eastern does not extend
into the British Columbia me
tropolis of Vancouver. A water
voyage links Vancouver with
the route of the North Country
Limited. This voyage is worth
the venture itself. The boat
calls at timbered islands and
plows up granite fiords. "It is
like Norway," said a visitor
from Scandinavia, who stood in
the bow of the Union Steamship
company s 240 -foot steamer,
Lady Alexandra.
The 347-mile journey of the
North Country Limited may
seem remote from Portland, yet
it is a trip which Portlanders
can complete in only four or
five days. It is not an expensive
undertaking, but in drama and
new experiences it returns rich
dividends.
Auto Left Behind
Vancouver, of course, may be
reached by automobile, rail or
bus from Portland. It is an easy
dawn-to-dusk drive, as we found
in the AAA white motorlog car
of the Oregon State Motor asso
ciation. But at Vancouver we
had to leave the car behind. We
were going where it could not
follow by water up Howe
Sound and then by rail into the
Cariboo fastnesses.
On many train journeys tbe
wayfarer feels remote and dis
tant from the magnificent scen
ery along the line. Ihis can
never be said of the North
Country Limited. In Cheakamus
canyon the train is so close to
the roaring river, with its ter
race of falls, that spray damp-
ens the brick-red cars. The rails
are thrust across the brink of
Brandywine falls, and passen
gers in the old Oregon Electric
coaches may lean from the win
dows and peer over the threshold
and down into the pool Z2u leet
below.
Name Misspelled
One inevitable question al
ways pursues every returned
traveler from the Cariboo: "Why
is it 'Cariboo' instead of 'Cari
bou' like the dictionary says it
ought to be?"
Well, it refers to the same
thing namely, the big ungain
ly animal with sweeping antlers
which has flesh that makes
very good steaks and stews. But
long ago an explorer without a
dictionary called it "Cariboo"
and that's the way the region
has been known ever since.
However, folks up along the
Pacific Great Eastern know the
correct spelling in "caribou,"
and that is the way they write
it on the menu cards in the
little restaurants where for 73
cents, you can eat a caribou cut
let dinner complete from soup
to custard pie.
Th putt, have rtiwrvatlonn and
tnforniatlun on Nnrtb Country l.lmltrit!
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atrnt. Parlflc (ireat Ka.trm railway,
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II. N. Crnmpton, an.ittant traffic
manaKcr I nlon Stram.hip romnany,
foot of C'arrnll .trrrt. Vancouver. B. C.J
Travel Information Hrrvlrr. Meter m
Frank Tompan), 1'ortland, Or.
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POLITICAL PATTERN CHANGES
In loss than ten months Mr.
and Mrs. U. S. Voter will be bal
loting for party convention del
egates who will select nominees
for the 1918 presidential elec
tion. This "presidential year"
promises to be different from
most others. Voters will scrutin
ize platforms more than the
men. Platform plans are well
along but the torchbearers have
been keeping them in the con
vertible stage.
Tom Dewey chucked a hefty
plank to the G.O.P. platform
carpenters when he advocated
the elimination of all state in-
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SPECIAL FOR
ONE WEEK
24 -gallon Garbage
Cans-were ....5.50
NOW 3.99
2 Underground Gar
bage Receivers
Were 19.88
NOW 12.50
Clothes Baskets
Were 2.10
Will sell at 1.00 Ea.
Heppner Hardware
& Electric
come taxes in an address at the
governors' annual conventoin at
Salt Lake City last week. Repub
lican governors in attendance
were for him at a ratio of 10 to
3. No statement by a potential
candidate has yielded as much
publicity this year. Editors and
commentators across the country
opened up, some maddened and
others heartened. Vox populi
letters to newspapers from re
publicans are for the idea while
the democratic "to-the-editor"
authors are ferninst it. Editors
of some democratic newspapers
are advocating that "elimination
of state income tax" idea be in
corporated in the democratic
platform.
While the Dewey campaign
scrapbook fattens with clippings
republican kingmakers are
doubting. Has the N. Y. gover
nor jumped the gun? Is he off to
too early a start to maintain
top interest for ten months?
SNELL SAILS FOR HAWAII
Governor Earl Snell and nine
other governors who attended
the recent governors' conference
at Salt Lake City sailed last Sat
urday for Hawaii aboard the
Battleship Iowa as guests of Na
vy Secretary Forrestal. While en
route to the islands the gover
nors will witness the training
Peters Building. Willow Street
Heppner, Oregon
0. M. YEAGER p. w. MAHONEY
CONTRACTOR & BUILDER
All kinds of carpenter work.
Modern Homes Built er Remodeled
Phone 1483 41$ Jones Si.
HEPPNER. OREGON
Turner, Van Marrer
and Company
GENERAL
INSURANCE
Attorney at Law
GENERAL INSURANCE
Heppner Hotel Building
Willow Street Entrance
OK Rubber Welders
FRANK ENGKRAF, Prop.
First class work guaranteed
Located in the Kane Building
North Main St. Heppner, Ore.
Phelps Funeral Honu Jack A. Woodhall
Doctor of Dental Medicine
Office First Floor Bank Bldg.
Phone 2342 Heppner
Licensed Funeral Directors
Phone 1332 - HePswer, Ore.
Heppner City Council
Meets First Monday Each Menth Dr. L. D. TlDDleS
OSTEOPATHIC
Citizens having matters for discus
sion, pleas bring before
the Council
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
Morrow County
Cleaners
Box 82. Heppner. Ore.
Phone 2632
Superior Dry Cleaning
& Finishing
Physician St Surgeon
First National Bank Building
Res. Ph. 1162 Office Ph. 4M
A. D. McMurdo, M. D.
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Trained Nurse Assistant
Office in Masonic Building
Heppner, Oregon
Dr. C. C. Dunham
CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN
Office up stairs I. O. O. F. Bld
Hous. calls made
House Phone 2583 Office 2572
Blaine E. Isom
AU Kinds of
INSURANCE
Phone 723
Heppner, Ore
mendations for the advisory
rent control committees lor
eight Oregon districts, under the
new rent control act passed by
congress were announced from
the governor's office this week
Landlords and tenants are rep
resented equally on the list i
each district. .
The committees will work co
operatively with the area rent
representatives of the respective
district. The committees will not
be in the nature of a board of
appeal. It will have no nut mr
ity to recommend decontrol of
any kind in any part of the
state.
CAPITAL SHORTS
State Corporation Commission
er Maurice Hudson, who return
ed last week from an air trip to
Europe, says western Europe
will solve its problems, despite
some communist and fascist
sentiment that prevails Li
quor sales dropped $70,000 dur
ing the past six months and the
commission is in the red $800,-
000 Forest fire hazards were
lessened this week by higher
humidity. ... Friends of R. H.
Baldock, state highway engin
eer, and Mrs, Frank W. Lehmer
have been advised the courne
will be maried "sometime this
fall". ..From S2 to . iih .1
N. D. BAILEY
Cabinet Shop
Lawn Mowers Sharpened
Sewing Machine! Repaired
Phone 1485 for apointment,
or call at shop.
Heppner, Oregon
Heppner Hospital
Beds available by reservation.
W. P. BROWNE, M.D.
Physician & Surgeon
5 K Street Phone 932
GENERAL ROOFING
Colors to suit your home . . . Gilsonite
your old roofs.
Free Estimates Call 1282
in the Blue mountains Sunday
for a picnic dinner under the
auspices of the Morrow County
Shrine club and auxiliary.
Guests were present from Ba
ker, Kinzua, Arlington, lone and
Salem. From Baker came Dr
and Mrs. Harry Herman and Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Nero. Dr. Herman
is president and Mr. Nero, sec
retary of the Blue Mountain
Shrine club. From Kinzua, the
guest list included Mr. and Mrs.
James Walker, Mr. and Mrs.
George Close, Mr. and Mrs. Mor
ris Brown, Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Phillips; invited from Heppner
were Rev. and Mrs. J. Palmer
Sorlein. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Col
lins, Mrs. Anna Bayless, Mrs.
Irene Burns, Mrs. Mary Wallace
and Robert Wightman; Arling
ton was represented by Mrs. Go
ar and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Phillip!,
lone by George Ely, and Salem
by Mr. and Mrs. Dorscy Isom.
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Hodge Jr.
returned from Portland Saturday
evening.
program of 600 naval midship-' fannot be collected by the state
men from 18 western colleges . lncorae tax commission just now
and schools who are making a
two months training cruise.
TAX COMMISSION SUED
Mandamus action to compel
the state tax commission to
grant a hearing for a claim for
on account
space.
of lack of office
SHRINERS COUNT 75
AT PICNIC SUNDAY
Shriners, auxiliary members
and guests to the number of 75
refund of income taxes is on file gathered at the Wightman ranch
in the Marlon county circuit
court. The proceeding was brot
by six residents of California
their income taxes In Oregon be
who charge that they overpaid
cause profits on a war Job for
construction work at Camp Ad
air were reduced by negotiation
of a contract with the federal
government. They were doing
business as the firm of Fleeth,
Roberts and Moore,
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ONE MAN BOOST
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Attorney General George Neu
ner has ruled that a salary of
; "not to exceed $1,000" voted by
the last legislature to supple
ment the pay of the deputy state
treasurer in his capacity as ex
officio secretary of the state
bond commission could not be
I legally paid to anyone else who
might become secretary of the
I commission.
j In another opinion Neuner
'stressed that county courts are
I required to provide justices of
the peace within their Jurisdic
tion with such offices, court
rooms and clerical assistants as
the court deems necessary,
RENT CONTROL COMMITTEES
Governor Earl Snell's recom-
for
HILLY ORCHARDS
lracki provide poiilive traction to
prevent powsr waits from slippage.
They olio give the "Caterpillar" Dieiel
Tractor iti low center of gravity provid
ing lalsty and liability on hilliide work.
Lei ui ihow you how "Caterpillar"
track -type Tracton will go anywhert
you aik Ihem lo go,.
Braden Tractor &
Equipment Co.
GRAIN BUYING
ARCHER-DANIELS
MIDLAND CO.
Clifford Carlson, Mgr.
Heppner Office
1st National Bank Bldg., Phone 2623
Office Hours, 1-6 P. M.
lone Oflice
Phone 1111
18tf
From where I sit ... Joe Marsh
"Not Responsible
For Wife's Debts"
A young man came rushing Into
the Clarion oflice the other day and
wanted me to print an ad "right
quick" saying he won't be respon
sible for his wife's debts from now
on, as he's leaving her for good Im
mediately. I allowed ai how the forms were
all closed up, and it was too late to
take his ad. He says: "All right,
Monday then" and we agreed on
Monday,
Of course, the forma weren't
closed. But I had kind of an Inkling
of what might happen. Then Bun-
day he phones me, and says, kind of
sheepishly: "You can forget that
ad. Me and the missus have every
thing all patched up. And we're hav
ing a friendly glass of beer, right
now."
From where I sit, if you give
folks time enough to think things
over, those hasty quarrels that
come so often from misunderstand
ing will give way to tolerance and
common sense.