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6-Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon, Heppner Battles Pendleton In Tapping Interior Trade From the "Daily" Heppner Ga-J tette of June 6, 1891, we learn some of the road problems con-1 fronting Grant county, and the part played by Heppner and( Pendleton in providinp. tianspor-i tatlon outlets for that "inland j republic." An unsigned corres- pondence to the Gazette, dated: Long Creek, June 6, has the lot lowing to say: The Pendleton and Long Creek completed. The force of work wagon road is being rapidly men has reached the summit of the North Fork mountain and is proceeding down on Camas creek. The fund appropriated lor this purpose by the Pendle ton merchants will be sufficient to complete the thoroughfare to the Middle Fork of the John Day. From that point, with the ex ception of only a short distance, is a good road to Long Creek. This exception is confined whol ly to Flower's gulch, leading from the Middle Fork, which is a rough and rocky trail, and will require the expenditure of some little money to make it passable at all seasons of the year. Pen dleton, however, expects Long Creek to raise the necessary bo nus to warrant its completion. but the pressure of hard times makes this enterprise an up-hill business. Heppner has appropriated money and constructed thorough fares through the heart of Grant county, and if Pendelton expects to attract a reasonable portion of our trade she must do the same. This is an enterprise of purely business nature. Grant county wants available roads ra diating in every direction, but under the present circumstances, she expects the benefited points to raise the necessary funds. Thus, it Is plainly seen, that if Pendleton expects a paying por tion of the Grant county trade, she must not stop her construc tion work at the county line, but when she has tapped the heart of our country, she will then stand on an equal footing with Heppner. The Sumpter Valley Railroad company, who are at present constructing a branch line from Baker City, are talking strongly of extending a telegraph line to Prairie City, John Day and other towns of the county in order to give Grant county merchants and stockmen direct communi cation with the main line. This will add another jewel to the crown of Grant county. The per fection of any enterprise that will enhance the value of our in land republic and assist in the development of the stock and You Can't Afford To Not Plant Your Bulbs Now! We are offering our stock at 1-3 OFF This includes: Snowdrops, Ranuncu lus Mixed, Scilla Campanulata, Giant Tulips, Sundew Tulips, Bronze Queen Tulips, Bleu Amiable, Dutch Iris (blue shades), Daffodils, Poeticus Recurvus, Jonquils, Mixed Daffodils and Narcissi Collection. To better serve you, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bucknum are attending flower school in Portland this week. They will return with new ideas and knowledge for the handling of flowers. 5ay It VLth DCotmu The Flower Shop Serve Them At Every Monl TVil All ThoT?nwU)1 Nourishing, wholesome foods are essential to health and happiness . . . Make up your tasty meal-menus from our complete stock of foods rich in nutritional elements. Our friendly clerks are always ready to offer you suggestions about the best food values and will even offer you hints on the preparation of appetizing, energy-rich meals! See our price sheet for the week's best buys! (Sour ft sheep interests, and in a way attract desirable immigrants and cause the settlement and im provement of thousands of good ranches, is what we Grant coun- t it es want at present. Would not i telegraph line from Heppner to John Day via Long Creek, and from Pendleton to Long Creek via Alba and Ritter, be of ad vantage to each railroad point as well as the interior country? What say you, business men of Heppner and Pendleton? o Pomona Proposes New Meeting Dates Last Saturday, Greenfield grange at Boardman was host to the Morrow county Pomona with a delegation from each subord inate in the county. A resolution, submitted and approved by the grange, pertain' ed to the changing of the regu lar meeting dates from the first Saturday in January, April, July and October, to the first Satur day in February, May, August and November. As this change necessitates a change in the by laws, the resolution will be pre sented at the next regular meet ing, January 3, 1948, at Lexing ton. The finals for the state grange canning contest for Morrow coun ty was judged by Mrs. Grace Macomber, to whom the grange extends a word of gratitude for her gracious assistance. Winners were as follows: Tree fruit 1st, Nora Ransier, Boardman; 2nd, Emma Peck, Lexington; 3rd, Lucy Rodgers, Heppner. Berries 1st, Margaret Thorpe, Boardman; 2nd, Gloria Dolven, Lexington; 3rd, Myra Peck, Lex ington. Jelly 1st, Alice Anderson, Heppner; 2nd, Jean Nelson, Lex- i ington; 3rd, Lucy Rodgers, Hepp- ner. Important business of the PO' mona was the election of offi cers for 1948-49: Master, Ken neth Smouse; overseer, Henry Baker; lecturer, Jean Nelson; steward, Donald Heliker; assist ant steward, Francis Nickerson; chaplain, Hannah Anderson; treasurer, Anna Skoubo secre tary, Grace Drake; gatekeeper, C. A. Tannehill; Ceres, Margaret Thorpe; Pomona, Dot Halvorsen; Flora, Frances Smouse; L. A. S., Mary Lindsay; executive com mittee, S. J. Devine, Orville Cuts forth, Dan Ransier. The next regular meeting will be held on Saturday, Jan. 3, with Lexington grange entertaining. Mary Lundell, Secretary. Street Etorkett October 16, 1947 News From C. A. Office Did you know that every day 100 farm fires take the lives of 10 farmers ... that one farm fire in 10 results in death? Did you know that the total loss this year will be about equal to the value of every productive acre and every farm building in the state of Washington? Did you know the farm fire loss this vear would build 50, 000 $2,000".00 barns? Did you know that forest fires this year will burn over an area as large as the state of New York, destroying enough timber to build 200,000 five-room hous es? Did you know that the total estimated loss threatens to ex ceed $700 million, enough to give every man, worfian and child In the U. S. $5.00? Did you know you can prevent 90 per cent of all these fires by living sensibly... and being for ever on the alert? These are facts reported by the National Fire Prevention Asso ciation as Fire Prevention week, October 5-11, proclaimed by Pres ident Truman, was observed. Act today to stamp out the causes of fire on your farm. It's up to you to protect your selfyour family and your farm. Fall is the best time to make a good start for next year's home garden. Sanitation and weed control in fall is worth while in all gar dens. Clear away and burn all seed-bearing weeds. As soon as the plants die, or when frost cuts them down, burn all plants that have been injured by dis eases and insects. If there has been trouble with nematodes or with fungus disease that lives in the soil, fall is a good time for treatment with appropriate chemicals. Winter care for gardens de pends on climate and on the son. winter covercrops are a val- uable method of preventing washing or erosion in winter rains and of saving any plant rood applied this season and not used by the crops. When the covercrop is turned under in spring this plant food in the green plants is released for use again, and humus is added to the soil For many gardens, fall is the best time for adding manure or compost to improve the fertility and physical condition of the soil. Many heavy soils are im proved by spading or plowing in the fall, leaving the garden rough to be broken down in win ter freezing and thawing. A gar den in which manure or compost is turned under at this time is likely to be a heavy absorber of winter rain, so that erosion is reduced accordingly. Wheat is Uncle Sam's biggest export crop in these days of world food shortage. The Aeri cultural Situation and Outlook circular recently issued by the UiC extension service states that over half of the total tonnage of iooa exported from the United States in 1946-47 was wheat. So strong was the demand for the bread grain that the U. S. carried over only 83 million bushels of last year's supply as contrasted with an average carryover of 235 million bushels for the 10 years berore the war. I This year's record wheat crop j has replenished depleted re I serves. With something like 1 12 ! billion bushels on hand, the U. S. could increase its use of wheat for feed, export about as much as last year, and still have a Male Help Wanted Man wanted In Morrow county to take orders for Amazing Low Coat Oil Bur ner for Heating-Cooking Stoves, Rang es, Laundry Stovee. etc. Larger Bizea for Furnaces and Boilers. LIFE-TIME GUARANTEE. Burns cheao oil. Hun- j dreds of proepcU. We will let you ! try it in your own atove or furnace for one month. Be first. For Free in formation send card or letter to North west Mfg. Co., Dept. 1011, Mitchell, S. Dak. 29-30C ?) Club A series of meetings for Ore gon 4-H club girls and their mo thers to learn the latest Inform ation about patterns for teen-age girls will be held October 14 to 21, it has been announced by Mrs. Winifred (Jillen. asistant state club leader at OSC. Mrs. Jane Gibbs from the Sim plicity Pattern company will be the featured speaker. She is a former 4-H member employed by the pattern company to give lec tures and demonstrations for teen-age groups. The meeting for Eastern Ore gon which Miss Gibbs will speak before has been scheduled to be held at Pendleton, Monday, Oc tober 20, 10 a.m. The place it is to be held has not been announ ced but club members can in quire at the Umatilla county agent's office for this informa tion. Oscar Peterson who operates a farm in the Liberty section was in Heppner Wednesday at tending to business matters. Mr. Peterson reports good rains in that section recently. normal carryover on next June 30. The high prices now being paid . for wheat, the circular states, reflects the abnormally high foreign and domestic de mand for the crop, government buying for export, and high pri ces for corn and other grains. These prices are substantially above the price support level at 90 per cent of parity. The wheat acreage in the Pa cific Northwest for the past year was 17 per cent larger than the 1935-39 average and 36 per cent larger than the 1940-44 average. The government is asking that farmers plant heavily to wheat again. Price support at not less than 90 per cent of parity is to continue through 1948. The vaccine which the USDA developed as a preventive of bo vine brucellosis, or Bang's dis ease, is a preventive but not a cure. Dr. C. K. Mingle, a veter inarian and research scientist of the department's bureau of ani mal industry, emphasized this point at a meeting of the U. S. Livestock Sanitary association in Chicago a while back. Dr. Mingle said that the ef fectiveness of the vaccine in building up resistance to the disease in healthy animals has led some persons to try it as a remedy for cattle already Infest ed. Reports of these instances caused Dr. Mingle and his as sociates at Beltsville, Maryland, to run tests with a group of hei fers in a herd near the station. They found that giving the vac cine to an animal that already is infected with Bang's disease has no appreciable effect on the normal course of the disease. Vaccination is not a cure for an animaNthat already has Brucellosis. New and Old Floors Sanded and Finished WORK GUARANTEED FREE ESTIMATES PRICE and EVANS 204 West 2nd St. THERE S 1Xjj . If IN THIS MATCHED MAKE-UP See how Cart Nome Face Pow der, Rouge, and Lipstick give 'yon Instant new loveliness! . . . Parallce Kendall, Cara Nome Beauty Specialist, will give private consultations during CARA NOME BEAUTY WEEK October 20 tr, 25. No charge or obligation Telephone, write or call for your appointment. ( A It I NOME miLMlt EXCLUSIVELY AT CHURCHES ALL SAINTS CHURCH Holy communion 8 a.m. Church school 9:45 a.m. Holy communion 11 a.m. Wednesday Holy communion 10 a.m. Bishop Barton will hold a meeting of the Bishop's commit tee and men of the parish on Thursday, Oct. 23 at 8 p.m. in the parish house. CHURCH OF CHRIST Bible school, 9:45; C. W. Bar low, Supt.; Beverly Yocom, Jun ior Supt.; Mrs. Joe Jewett, Pri mary Supt. Morning worship, 11; commun ion and preaching; sermon top ic: the third n a series on the theme of Stewardship. "The Stewardship of Material Things.' Evening service, 7:30; sermon topic, 'The Way to Heaven." Choir practice Thursday eve ning at 7. Bible study Thursday evening at 8. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Jewett are leaving Monday morning to go to Albany to attend the 11th an nual convention of Ninety and Nine, men's brotherhood of the Church of Christ in Oregon. They will go on to Portland for a cou ple of days and return home on Wednesday. METHODIST CHURCH J. Palmer Sorlein, Pastor Morning worship at the regu lar hour, 11 a.m., with music by the choir. Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. Classes for all ages. Mrs. Lucy Rodgers, superintendent Womens Society of Christian Service meets the first Wednes day of each month. , Special services will begin on November 4, and continue for 10 days. , Choir practice every Thursday at 7 p.m. ST. PATRICK'S CHURCH Schedule of services: Heppner: Mass on 1st and 3rd Sundays at 8 a.m., on 2nd and 4th at 9:30. lone: Mass on 1st and 3rd Sundays at 9:30, on 2nd and 4th at 8 a.m. On 5th Sunday one mass In Heppner at 9:00. Holy days of obligation: Mass in Heppner at 7:30; lone at 8:30. Mass on first Friday of month in Heppner at 7:30 a.m. o County Court Proceedings for September, 1947 The minutes of the August 1947 term were read and approved. The Court ordered that start ing October 1, 1947, the salary of the Justice of the Peace, Sixth District, be set at $75.00 per month and the Justice of the Peace, Fifth District, be set at $60.00 per month. WARRANTS ISSUED ON GENERAL FUND Maxine East, Deputy Clk. $136.60 Lorine Van Winkle, Office Clerk 111.40 Frances Mitchell, Deputy Tax Collector 168.69 Olive Hughes, Deputy As sessor Salary 155.60 Sadie Parrish, Supt. Assist. Phone 2061 HERMISTON, OREGON THE REXALl DRUB STORC Humphreys Drug Co. Salary 64.20 Dr. A. D. McMurdo, Physi cian Salary 25.00 Susie W. Miller, Court Reporter 41.67 A. B. Chaffee, Justice of the Peace Salary 45.00 J. O. Hager, Justice of the Peace Salary 53.70 A. J. Chaffee, Janitor Sal ary 131.60 Margaret Gillis, County Nurse 213.44 State Dept. of Agric. Dis trict Sealer 4.95 Pacific Tel. & Tel. Co., Cur rent Expense 63.65 J. O. Hager, Justice of the Peace, Justice Court 1.74 Kilham Stationery & Prt. Co., Tax Collections 138.00 Children's Farm Home. Juvenile Court 10.00 Thomson Bros., Jail 5.19 Heppner Laundry, Jail 3.24 Heppner Market, Jail 85 Mid-Columbia Typewriter, Assessor im Heppner Gazette Times, Offic. Pub. $46.00: As sessor $15.10 61.10 Simmons Carbon Company Assessor 2.03 The Haloid Company, Ct. House $103.39; Clerk, $72.42 175,81 C. W. Barlow, Ct. House .. 2.00 West Disinfecting Co., Ct. House 2.71 C. W. Barlow, Court House 4.11 West Coast Prt. & Binding to., Election Expense .... 18.00 C. J. D. Bauman, Sheriff ... 85.01 Simmons Carbon Company, Asessor 2.03 State Ind. Ace. Comm., Sher. $3.65; Sher. Sal. $.31; Deputy Sal. $.31 4.27 Pub. Emp. Retirement Sys., bupt. Sal 20 First Nat. Bank of Port land, Withholding Tax 1 (Salaries) 241.95 Pac. Power & Light Co. Court House 31.94 Bert Johnson, County Ct. ... 6.44 L. D. Neill, County Court ... 42.00 Ralph Thompson, County Court 32.83 Bert Johnson, Gen. Assist. $750.00; O.A.A. $1,296.00; Aid Dep. Chil. $233.25; Blind $31.25 2,310.50 Rodda May Conyers, Clr-. cult Court " 8.25 Heppner Red & White, Jail 22.35 C. J. D. Bauman, Stamps & Envelopes 75.00 WARRANTS ISSUED ON GENERAL ROAD FUND Walter Gilman 138.78 Robert Taylor 16.98 Jack Slocum 148.81 Fred Booker 104.01 W. Cunningham 50.94 H. Sherer 196.70 Chas. Williams 99.87 Austin Wilson 67.41 H. Tamblyn 12.50 Union Oil Co. of Cal 9.57 Columbia Equipment Co.. 84.88 Jones-Scott Co 52.50 Heppner Lumber Co 77.15 J. P. O'Meara 143.00 Sam Forman 13.00 Shell Oil Co 24.61 Pac. Power & Light Co 3.66 First National Bank of Portland 22.60 State Industrial Accident Comm 40.16 Jack Allen Supply Co - 19.50 Braden Tractor & Equip ment Co 8.95 City of Heppner Water October 16 SONOTONE HEARING CENTER Heppner Hotel Bow sea tha new all-ln-on Bonoton with every ffreat hairing idnno DnUt in tra power and battery taring! available ao tacriflo to dot el tlx. Consultation Pre I T. C. DOWNS, Mgr. Bonoton of Walla Walla Certified Sonotone Oonraltant HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES TheJIeppner Gazette, established inarcn 3U, 1883. The Heppner Times, established November 18, 1897. Consolidated Feb. 15, 1912. Published every Thursday and entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription price, $250 a year; single copies 10c. O. G. CRAWFORD Publisher and Editor STAR Sunday Shows Continuous from 1 p. m. Evening shows, except Saturday, start at 7:30. Saturday show starts at 7:00. Boxof flee open evenings until 9 o'clock. Friday-Saturday, Oct. 17-18 Fighting Frontiersman The glamour anil exdtnment of the Wft of frontinr lay la depleted with many outdoor action cene In thl awirt-mnvlng and rant Hhootlnc WRBtorn. Charlet Starrett la the l)ur arK Kid and Smiley Barnette In amualiiK and dues some mualuil numbers In his Jovial manner. PLUS The Magnificent Rogue Lynns Roberta, Warren Donirlai, Oarald Mohr, Stephanl Baohelor, A del Mara , Whether he's a magnificent rogue 'or a worried husband, If you'ro looking for fun, here It is. Sunday-Monday, Oct. 19-20 TWO MRS. CARROLLS Hnmphrey Bogart, Barbara Btanwyok, Alexia Smith, algal Braoa. Thrill after thrill after thrill ... made from the Heppner Flood To Book's Original Owner (From "Fred Lockley's Impres sions" in the Oregon Journal. "Yes, I love Portland but I still have a very warm spot in my heart for dear old Heppner, where my family located in 1871 before there was really a town there," said Mrs. Ida May Dut ton of Portland when I interview ed her recently. "Most of my early-day friends sleep in the cemetery there," she continued. "When I was 12 years old my mother thought I should go to Salem to school. I lived with my mother's brother and his wife, Judge and Mrs. Rufus Mai lory. I started school at the Old Central school. Miss Powell was the teacher. She handed me the third reader and said, 'Read that chapter.' It happened to be a chapter that I had studied so I rattled it off. Miss Powell said: 'You are young, but if you can read like that I am going to have you transferred to the East Salem high school.' That was in 1872. One of my schoolmates there was Charlie Cox. Two of his aunts came to live here in Department 2.50 WARRANT ISSUED ON COYOTE BOUNTY FUND Shirley Wilkinson 6.00 Our Best, Biggest J rCf Assortment of ( , MODE' VL0S ifW Since 19411 J 7 M U5 , i A Beautiful sheer 45-gauge ny- I 1 x " 'J Ions! Full-fashioned for per- fJt' feet fit! YouH find your size: ' raT 8 to 104 in three new Fall I t colors Romance Beige, Sun- A s J nihrown and Mystique. 1 t1' ' $ 51-GAUGE 1.49 A j 42-GAUGE 98c feCX Reg. U. S. Put. Off. 45-GUAGE PURE SILK HOSE 75c pr. men's - women's - children's ppers Reduced to Clear 50c -'$1.00-$1.50 Pair ODD LOTS ODD SIZES GRAND VALUES! Some with leather soles. nn REPORTER Admission Prices both Matinee and Evening: Adults 50c, Grade and High School Students 12 and over 40c, Children 20c, all taxes in cluded. Every child occupying a seat must have a ticket. Returns Bible the Mann Home where I have lived for the past 11 years. One of them, still here, has been here for 15 years. "I have read your Interviews with many old time lleppnerites. Tragedy dogged many of the old residents of Heppner. Ellis Mi nor's son, Oscar, who with his brother, Art Minor, had a big cattle ranch there, was killed by the accidental discharge of his rifle while out deer hunting. Art died recently. "Yes, we lived on our ranch near Heppner when the cloud burst of June 11, 1903, almost wiped Heppner off the map. The flood swept across our ranch and washed the foundation from un der our big barn. The building dropped on our wool clip which was stored in the barn, but it didn't damage it. More than 200 people were drowned. I lost a number of good friends and neighbors in that flood. When my husband left his home in the East, his mother gave him a Bi ble. He boarded at Jake Mor row's home before we were mar ried. He left the Bible there. When Mr. Morrow's house was swept away, this Bible floated down and was left on our place not far from the hos' 2-yenr stage hit that hit Broadway between tho eyes! All done very elegantly. Sunday show continuous from 1 p.m. Phone the theater for starting tun of programs. Tuesday, Oct. 21 CIGARETTE GIRL Buns Morgan and his Orchestra, Loslie Brooks, Jimmy Iiloyd In a comedy with music, 1'L.UH Lone Wolf in Me xico Gerald Mohr, Sheila Byan, Erio Blore touclifts"r"V'" ttl1'"" 1"''""'0 Immorous Wednesday-Thursday, Oct. 22-23 SMASH-UP MaiKSt' LM ""n, Marsha Hunt, t.ef, not mlnro words: "Smash-up" Is the etorv of a woman who drinks loo much! It's probably lh"7,",'"tl.'f.r".nkJ""1 Krll'l'"" "l. ture ,,! I ...and Its broken many attendance records. 1