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II 2-Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon, January 15, 194S EDITORIAL Pay-As-You Go Looks Best In the nro few months there will bo much dis cutin of roads and how to finance them, for Morrow county is in need of a far seeing program and it should bo Riven thorough study before any definite financing step is taken. It will be recalled that in 1925 this county sold the first bonds after the people sanctioned an is sue of $550,000 for the construction of a county road system. We are still paying out on those bonds and will not bo through paying until 1955, unless the taxpayers take a notion to retire them by paying the full interest charges, and it doesn't worn necessary to do this. In the meantime, the roads built by funds obtained through that bond issue are sorely in need of repair, and in many instances rebuilding, and the county is faced with the problem of raising perhaps an even larger sum to do the job. The special road committee named at a meet ing of taxpayers in the fall of 1947 has tentatively written up four fund-raising proposals, only one of which has the proper ring to it so far as this column is concerned. That is proposal number four, which provides for a special levy of 10 mills over a period of years until the road situation is well in hand. It is a pay-as-you-go method and carries no interest charge. Presumably the work can begin as eaily through this method of financ ing as by bonding. If sanctioned at the primary election, the levy will be made at the first meet ing of the county court thereafter, or on July 7, and the county could then issue warrants until November when tax money would be available. It is likely that the county has paid $200,000 or mori in interest on that 5550,000 issue. That sum in itself would do a lot of road work, even at the high price scale of the present day. At least it would provide funds for buying equipment, bridge materials and other things sorely needed in main tenance and construction. Back in the early thir ties it was no small matter to pay upwards of $25,000 in interest, and although the last payment had dropped to a little more than seven thousand dollars, it will still cost the county thousands of dollars in interest before the last bond is retired. One thing in the county's favor at present is that there is not one cent of indebtedness aside from the road bonds. Every cent of money raised by a special levy can be applied to securing nec essary road equipment and operation of it in building and maintaining roads. Regular county business is amply cared for within the six per cent limitation. The people may vote whatever levy they see fit for roads and be assured the money will be spent for that purpose. Something New Has Been Added Presentation of a junior first citizen key is some thing new to Heppner and represents something of the change and growth that has been taking place here in the past twelve months. It remain ed for the formation of a junior chamber of com merce here to bring this about and to the pro gressive young men who constitute this live-wire civic organization let It be said that their efforts in behalf of the town and surrounding community are appreciated and it is hoped the work so nicely started in 1947 will continue on to bring to fruition some of the plans the Jaycees have originated and put into operation. It was not an easy matter for the committee from the senior chamber of commerce to pick the junior outstanding citizen, but the Jaycees them selves were largely responsible inasmuch as they chose William F. Barratt as their leader. Mr. Bar ratt is a capital hand at conducting meetings and in appointing committees that really go to work. It was a distinct honor accorded him when the county planning conference chose him as general chairman one of the youngest men participating in the conference. His general usefulness as a young citizen of the county has distinguished him as a leader and the honor accorded him has in no wise been misplaced. A Good Program r Tom Wilson, director of the Soil Conservation Service in this, county, was interested in a state ment in this column last week relative to a change in tillage practices and stated that he agrees with the viewpoint. In his capacity he is able to do something about it and gave us a few figures to show some of the things that have been done and what the SCS has in mind for the future. During the past season, land leveling on three of the creek valleys amounted to 420 acres. This doesn't look like much from the standpoint of figures, yet it represents a considerable sum to those having the work done. Of this amount, some new land has been brought into production, but so far the number of acres is so small as to be worthy only of mention or to show the possibili ties of bringing greater acreage under cultivation. Of the acres leveled, 260 were on Willow creek, 110 on Rhea creek and 50 on Butter creek. More lev eling remains to be done on these creeks. The service now has nine damsites surveyed on these creeks with storage capacity running from 450 acre feet to 1500 acre feet. It costs from $60 to $200 per acre foot to build these dams which are of a type of construction to withstand flash floods. Incidentally, an acre foot means 6 inches of water to one acre of land. More contour plowing and strip farming, as well as leveling of irrigated tracts must be done if the forces of erosion are to be checked. It is for the purpose of directing this work that the Soil Con servation service was set up and the cooperation displayed by land owners has not been discourag ing to the plan. If we stick to our knitting, keep our own econ omy right side up, explain frankly and fully what we are doing, and act with determination, we can safely leave the hollering to Molotov and Vish insky. The Saturday Evening Post. 30 YEARS A3 From Heppner Gazette Times January 17. 1918 Claus Johnson. Morrow county pioneer and farmer of Democrat gulch, died at his home last Fri day following an accident which occurred earlier in the week. Mr. Johnson's team became frighten ed and ran away, throwing him violently from the light hack. The First National Bank of Heppner opened for business Monday in the elegant new home, the move being made without a single hitch in business. W. W. Smead has been chosen to fill the unexpired term of S. E. Notson who resigned as mayor of Heppner at the last regular meet ing of the city council. M. D. Clark, Frank Gilliam and t George J. Currin, leading Masons of Heppner, departed for Portland yesterday morning and will at tend the meetings of the Scottish Rite Masons now being held in the metropolis. A daughter, Olivia Edna, was born to Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Bald win at their home Tuesday eve ning. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Hill of Lex ington report the arrival of a daughter at their home January 13. W. B. Barratt and J. O. Hager departed Tuesday morning for Salt Lake City to attend the Na tionai Woolgrowers association. At the annual meeting of the directors of the Lexington State SELF-O-MATIC iyHARVEl V w'mat Hself automatically (w forgt to wind your woldit TH. nMYH. Mf-O-Motic MtvM your pros lam. Natural motions of your writ mp your Sdf-O-Matic running wHt, traditional HAKVEl iplit ocond occurocy. Protected by Iht famous MARVEL Multi-Guard footuras water -rawttanf, ihock mlttont, duit-proof and antt oanaric plus on unbraak obi crysta', rodrum dial and nondtoma itainteu steal com 17 (swats. s? 17 ONI A HAtVB. r HNT A StlfJOMAlK HARM El A jiSfff '55 In fine aift box Fsdsral T. k Peter Aon i ! . ff. i mi bank the following officers were re-elected: W. G. Scott, president; T. J. Mahoney of Portland, vice president, and W. O. Hill, cashier. l In a deal this week Charles R. Pointer of Lexington disposed of his interest in the Leach and Pointer ranch to Earl Warner. The ranch was formerly owned by Frank and Jeff Evans and is sit- j uated north of Lexington. It joins the ranch Mr. Warner purchased from Ed Brown a few months ago. A. Henriksen and Jack Hynd. j stockgrowers of Cecil, were in I Heppner Tuesday. They came by auto but Henriksen said they should have had a boat and thus been able to make more rapid progress. a a The parsonage of the Method ist church received a new dress of paint the past week, at the hands of Bradford the painter. About $800 has been spent on improvements of the Methodist church property this year, ac cording to Rev. H. A. Noyes. a FLAGG BOOSTS PHONE RATES Last Saturday was "Flagg Day'' for the Pacific Telephone & Tel egraph company when State Pub lic Utilities Commissioner George H. Flagg gave the company a $1,-560,000-a-year boost in phone rates and a slap on the wrist just to show he wasn't prejudiced. He indicated there might be an other boost soon. Flagg was critical of the pre sent setup of the control of the Pacific company by the Ameri can Telephone & Telegraph com pany and of agreements requir ing the Pacific company to ob tain all equipment from Western Electric, a subsidiary of the Am erican company. The new rates became effective Saturday and will show on your next phone bill. The increases are principally based on popula tion. As an example the rate on a business phone in Salem is boosted $15 a year over the pre sent charge; individual residence rates are up $9 a year; two-party lines $6 and most other users $3. Farmer line services are upped generally from 50 cents to $1 a month. Some farmer lines will be reclassified as business custom ers and be boosted 150 percent while the boost for other farmer lines will be only 100 percent. FARM COUNCIL ANNOUNCED T. Morris Dunne, chairman of the state unemployment commis sion, announced the personnel of the recently established 11-man farm council. The new state ac tivity is an adjunct of the farm placement service in the develop-; ment of a 1948 program to meet farm labor needs. The council, appointed with the approval of Governor John Hall, will assist the farm labor office in its transition from federal to state control. Serving on the council will be Harold Barnett. Pendleton; Truman Chase, Eu gene; J. J. Fisher, Gresham; Ray G. Larson, Nyssa; D. F. Kennedy, Independence; Henry Semon, Klamath Falls; E. C. Zeigler, Hood River; Ammon Grice, Sal em; H. H. Chindgren, Molalla; Robert K. Norris, Medford, and Henry G. Holwiesner, Portland. VETS PENSIONS DECREASE Oregon veterans received $7, 497,718 in readjustment allow ances under the GI bill of rights during 1947, the state unemploy ment compensation commission has just announced. Unemploy ed veterans got $5,982,342. or 30.4 per cent less than in 1946. Self employed veterans got $1,515,376. a decrease of 21.9 per cent less than in the previous year. Every section of the state ex cept Pendleton and Ontario re- janut w 1 M S u fiH ported fewer payments to veter ans. About half of the payments went to the Portland area. Salem was second and Klamath Falls was third. RECENT SLANT ON LAWS In his latest digest of abridge ments Attorney General George Neuner holds that a mother of a minor child cannot authorize guardian of the person and es tate of such child, appointed by probate court after death of chidl's father, to place child for adoption by persons chosen by guardian and unknown to moth er. If parent of the child is liv ing and not incapacitated, only her consent can validate the ad option of the child. A holdover senator or candidate for nomination as a legislator may be a candidate to the nation al convention of his political par ty, as this position is not a pub lie office, Neuner holds. In ren denng an opinion for the state department of veteran's affairs he ruled that a veteran does not become disqualified for a GI loan by reenlisting in the military ser Vice. BABEL OF TAX-PERTS That ever-expanding gap be tween the opinions of tax statis ticians, and between state offi cials as well, on the many and conflicting tax laws of Oregon is alarming. We mean just that. It is approaching the "what's the use stage." Ever since Governor Chamber lain proclaimed bank holidays, -uvay back near fin de cicle days every session of the legislature 'has amended, recommended, re pealed or created new tax laws Now the folks who made them tlon't know what they mean. So the word is going 'round that they should all be repealed and a new tax law enacted so we can raise our children and will know what will happen when our wills are probated. GUBRNATORIAL APPOINTMENTS Governor Hall has just ap pointed Robert T. Mautz of Port land as a member of the racing commission to fill the unexpired term of Henry Collins, whose term expired January 14. MAKES HIGH AVERAGE Wade Bothwell of Heppner j earned a 3.0 grade point average I carrying 15 hours work during j the fall term at the Oregon Col-1 lege of Education and is named i on the honor roll at OCE. March of Dimes Benefit Game Basketball Condon Rover Boys vs. Heppner Townies Monday Evening, Jan.. 26th High School Gymnasium The Rover Boys are plenty fast and you will get a big evening of enter tainment for your contribution to the polio fund. Funeral Services Held Saturday ForDagmarSkoubo Boardman Girl Perished Of Cold On Alaska Trail By Flossie Coats Funeral services for Dagmar Skoubo were held at Boardman Community church at 2 p.m. Jan. 10. The Rev. Charles Eble, pas tor, officiated. Music was furn ished by Mrs. John Partlow and Mrs. Nathan Thorpe, with Mrs. Lowell Shattuck at the piano. Pallbearers were Albert Ball, Har old Baker, Donald Tannehill, Roy Partlow, Vernon and Dale Russell. Dagmar Axelgard Skoubo pass ed away at Palmer, Alaska, De vember 31, 1947. She was born in Boardman 20 years ago and lived most of her life here. She attended grade school and the first year high in Boardman, the last three years high in Pendle ton, and one year at University of Oregon in Eugene. She was later employed in Eugene, leav ing there last September for Pal mer, Alaska, where she lived and worked up to the time of her death. Miss Skoubo had been a member of the Community church the past several years. Miss Skoubo is survived by her paren'.s, Mr. and Mrs. Adolf Skou bo; three sisters, Asra and Erna of Palmer, Alaska, and Mrs. Toi vo Simila of Portland, and two brothers, Gunner and Leo of Boardman. Out-of-town relatives here for the burial besides Asta of Palmer, and Mr. and Mrs. Toivo Simila of Portland, were two uncles and one aunt of Portland, Gene and Alfred Skoubo and Mrs. Erick Lind; Mr. and Mrs. Ed Skoubo of Pendleton. Among friends from out-of-town were Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Eker and Nick Taylor of Eugene, Mrs. Jennie Olson and daughter Ivera of Hermiston, Mrs. Effie Robertson, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Robertson, and Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Robertson, all of Pert dleton. ... Taken from Palmer, Alaska, paper: Palmer, Alaska, Jan. 7, 1948: Dagmar Skoubo, who disappear ed sometime late last Tuesday af ternoon, was discovered lying dead near a trail in a wooded aiiea only five minutes walk from Palmer late Friday. Daryl Meeks, a member of the searching party combing the area, found the body. Death was caused by ex treme exhaustion and exposure, according to the decision reach ed by the coroner's Inquest Sat urday. Miss Skoubo was last seen alive about 3 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 30. She then stopped at the Palmer fountain and cafe, where she was employed, asking direction for finding a path to the river, where she intended to do some sketch ing. Marian Barry, a fellow worker, spoke with the girl for several moments and it is believed she set out immediately as she was dressed for outdoor hiking. Her disappearance caused no alarm until early Thursday, when fel low roomers at the "dorm" dis covered Miss Skoubo had not re turned. Hotels and hospitals were alerted, but reports reached the city marshal too late to be gin active searching that night. Early Friday morning the search started and the body was found in midafternoon lying beside a well-marked trail, by Mr. Meeks. She had apparently wandered un til she had become exhausted and then had lain down to rest, only to become a victim of last week's cold weather. Medical evidence shows that death did not occur before Wednesday noon. Snow which fell early Wednesday mor ning had been disturbed by the girl's motions as she slept. Miss Skoubo had been in Pal- PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY J. O. PETERSON Latest Jewelry and Gift Goods Watches, Clocks, Diamond! Expert Watch & Jewelry Repairing Heppner, Oregon Veterans of Foreign Wars Meetings 2nd and 4th Mondays at 8:00 p. m. in Legion Hall O.M.YEAGER CONTRACTOR & BUILDER All kinds of carpenter work. Modern Homes Built or Remodel ed. Phone 1483. 415 Jonei St. HEPPNER, OREGON JOS. J. NYS ATTORNEY AT LAW Peters Building, Willow Street Heppner, Oregon j. o. TURNER ATTORNEY AT LAW Phone 173 Hotel Heppner Building Heppner, Oregon p. W. MAHONEY ATTORNEY AT LAW General Insurance Heppner Hotel Building Willow Street Entrance Jock A. Woodhall Doctor of Dental Medicine Office First Floor Bank Bldg. Phone 2342 Heppner Turner, Van Marter and Company GENERAL INSURANCE Phelps Funeral Home Licensed Funeral Directors Phone 1332 Hepnper, Oregon Heppner City Council Meets First Monday Each Month i KArkAnrAn M D Citizens having matters for dis- A. O. MCMUfdO, Vl.U. cussion, please bring before the Council Dr. L D.Tibbies OSTEOPATHIC Physician & Surgeon First National Bank Building Res. Ph. 1162 Office Ph. 492 Pamper Yonr Winter Clothes You choose your winter clothes with care . . . make sure they stay in the same good condition by let ting us clean them. It costs little to look your best when we do your cleaning regularly. 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, Phone 263 Ore. Superior Dry Cleaning Finishing N. D. BAILEY Cabinet Shop Lawn Mowers Sharpened Sewing Machine Repaired Phone 1485 for apointment, or call at shop. Heppner, Oregon PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Trained Nurse Assistant Office in Masonic Building Heppner, Oregon Dr. C. C. Dunham CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN Office No. 4 Center St. House calls made Home Phone 2S83 Office 2S72 C. A. RUGGLES Representing Blaine E. Isom Insurance Agency Phone 723 Heppner. Or W. P. Browne, M.D. Physician & Surgeen Hours 2 to 6 p. m. 5 K Street Phone 952 DR. J. D. PALMER DENTIST Office upstairs Rooms 11-13 First National Bank Bldg. Phones: Office 783, Home 932 Heppner, Oregon mer for only a few months, com ing here in September from her home in Boardman, Oregon. She has two sisters in Palmer, Asta and Erna, who are employed as nurses at the Valley hospital. The girl was 20 years old at the time of her death. Miss Asta Skoubo left January 6 by plane to take her sister's body home to Boardman for bur ial. ... Hermiston quints motored to Boardman Friday night to meet theN Boardman graders and the Yellow Jackets on the home floor, taking home the honors for both games. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Anderegg were hosts Thursday night at a dinner for the Guardian Service aluminum ware. Present were Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mulligan, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Gustln, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Fortner, Mrs. I. Skoubo, Mrs. Ralph Skoubo, Miss Elizabeth Brown, Geo. Jaros and the host and hostess. Mrs. R. E. Eades left for an ex tended visit in Los Angeles, Cal. (Additional Boardman, Page 5) HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 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, $2.50 a year; single copies, 10c. O. G. CRAWFORD Publisher and Editor Nursery Furniture For The Very Young New arrivals in nursery furnishing for that precious newest arrival in your home. Cribs Youth Chairs Baby Brigs Bassinette Bathinettes Training Chairs and Seats Night Lamps and Pin-ups High Chairs that fold into a table Case Furniture Company jewelry! EKeppner Cleaneirs SKLF-O-UATIC ud HULTt-GUAUD tag. V. i- twL Off.