6 Heppner Gozette Times, Hpepenr, Oregon, May 1 3, 1948
EDITORIAL
WHERE NEW RIVER CHANNEL RUNS
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
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Don't Cut Off Your Nose
An old saying, trite hut true, "Don't cut off your
nose to spite your face," might have some rela
tionship to the current situation affecting Mor
row county's roads. It is being bruited about that
voters are saying they will not support the pro
posed road bond measure unless they know who
is going to administer the funds. That's just about
as assuring as another saying "if we had some
ham we would have some ham and eggs, if we
had the eggs."
It is rather difficult to foresee who is going
to administer the funds when two members of the
county court are to be nominated at the same
time the road issue is to be voted on. No one has
come forth to date with that answer and all of us
will know more about it in the days immediately
following the primary election.
If we think the roads are in bad shape now,
what will be their condition by the time another
year passes or maybe several years unless the
attitude changes. In another year or two it will
be necessary to ask for more than a ten-mill levy
to make present roads passable, let alone put
them in first class condition. The situation is
bad enough now, why make it worse?
Permit a suggestion to be made. Why not make
a special effort to get out and vote on May 21T
Vote for the road fund levy, the hospital special
fund, and cast your ballot for the men you feel
will best administer these funds. Don't stay home
and hate yourself because the WTOng fellow got
in especially if you did not do your part of the
voting. With so much at stake in the matter ol
taxes it should not be necessary to urge any regis
tered voter to do his or her duty, yet the trend in
late years has been to leave momentous decisions
in the hands of a comparatively small minority.
Lack of interest on the part of the voters is re
sponsible for the drift towards centralized govern
ment. It is time the people actually did something
to protect their interests and that power is vested
in their duty to register and vote at every election.
No Boom, But Growing
A little tour about town will reveal a surprising
amount of activity in home building. This is es
pecially true in the outlying districts where build
ing space is more plentiful and lot prices more
reasonable.
Not alone is there evidence of new home build
ing but there is much repairing and altering un
derway -which gives a tone of improvement in
general. It is to be hoped that this residential
building activity will expand to include some
NATIONAL DITORIAI
ASSOCIATION
new Lusincss structures along the "main drag"
and thus invite location here of some of the types
of business needed to make the town a more
complete trading center.
Wha is said of Heppner speaks for Lexington
and lone, also. New buildings are in evidence in
both of the towns down the valley and the spirit oi
improvement pervades the communities. It is
found on the ranches, where several fine homes
have been completed and more are contemplated.
In all of this progress there is nothing of a
boom. It is a natural growth, substantial and
healthy, and makes for better living. And better
living brings greater contentment.
Over in the river section, Boardman and Irrigon
are coming into their own, due to the McNary
dam .The little project towns are enjoying a
growth which, naturally, is more or less a boom
but which at the same time is not an unhealthy
situation. People realize they must have water to
get sufficient production to make the land pay
and there is no apparent rush to put in business
enterprises there ahead of time. Growth in the
north Morrow county towns has been slow com
pared with that in western Umatilla county but
the time is not far distant when the north end of
Morrow county will provide homes for a far
heavier population.
If crops fail this season it won't be due to a lack
of moisture. The blame can be laid to a lack of
sunshine. That's an unusual situation in this
region where an inch of rainfall per month has
long been the average. It's a reversal of form and
where once it was the custom to look at a cloud
less ssy ana wonaer wnen there would be rain
it is now becoming a habit to look at a cloudy
sky and wonder when the sun will shine.
The city's campaign to make life less hazardous
for pedestrians by repairing sidewalks is meeting
with success. The project may necessitate removal
of more trees along the streets and this can be
done without working serious injury to adjacent
property. Leveling of sections of the walk dis
jointed by tree roots has removed the worst haz
ards to pedestrian safety as well as improving the
appearance of the walks. Removal of the high
curbing along the north side of west Willow
street has also been a great improvement, and
the latest sidewalk work, the filling in of the
unpaved section in front of the Wells property on
Main street completes the project started a ye-
ago, giving the main thoroughfare a more fin
ished appearance. When the city gets the funds
to repair the paving in the streets there won't be
much left to holler about.
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30 YEARS
From Heppner Gazette Times
May 16, 1918
Mrs. Enoch Cave died Wednes
day after a long and painful ill
ness. She is survived by her hus
band, nine children, 42 grandchil
dren and 14 great grandchildren.
Mrs. Frank Bayless died Tues
day as the direct result of a par
alytic stroke which affected her
entire right side.
Miss Nova Nellie Capon of
Monument and Joseph Dempsey
Boyer, a young stockman of near
Monument, were married at the
home of the bride's sister, Mrs.
George McDuffee, Sunday.
Over 2.000 voters are registered
In Morrow county, it was found
in scanning the books at the
clerk's office.
I Cora Vincent Elliott passed
! away at the Butter creek home ol
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Johnson early
Tuesday morning, May 7. She is
surv ived by a brother, W aldo Vin
cent, who lives near Lena.
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Emil Lundell, well known
Gooseberry farmer, passed away
Saturday evening, May 4 at the
parental home.
F. S. Parker went to Arlington
Saturday to meet his mother,
Mrs. Sarah H. Parker, who came
out from Missouri. On the trip
down he was accompanied by w.
G. Scott of Lexington who went
east to visit relatives in Iowa.
The little daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. N. F. Lawson is ill with
scarlet fever, Doctor Winnard re
ports.
help solve the
proper dress
problem at
Graduation
Time
Our line of fonnali
will mak shopping
easy for you.
See our line of
"Dressy"
Dresses
-Suits for
Baccalaureate
-New Gift
Items for
Graduation
Come in and shop around
Norah's Shop
Glen C. Jones, who was granted
an extended furlough to look af
ter the ranch, is quarantined at
the home of his parents due to
diphtheria.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Becket
were in the city Saturday from
their farm home in Eight Mile
Walter says crop conditions gen
erally are good, but a little rain
just now would be especially ben
eficial to the spring sown grain
(Ed note May 12, 1948, Gee, how
times have changed!)
Morrow county has raised one
ninth of her quota of war savings
stamps. Sales amount to $10,687.
68 and quota is $90,160. The quota
must be raised before January 1
1919.
Graduation exercises were held
in Hardman for the high school
seniors Friday night. Dr. George
B. van Waters of Portland deliv
ered the address.
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Washington Week
By ARTHUR HACHTEN
Washington, D. C A state of
open warfare exists between the
Republican Senatorial majority
and President Truman over ap
pointments to the Judiciary and
other high Government offices
an issue that assumes special im
portance in an election year.
The Senate s reluctance to con
firm long-term presidential ap
poimments has brought protests
from Administration leaders. To
charges of "politics" the Senators
remind the President that his Ad
ministration was repudiated In
the 1946 elections, when the peo
ple Installed a Republican Con
gress.
Overlooking the Constitutional
provision that "appointments
shall be made with the advice
and consent of the senate," the
President refused to listen when
Republican leaders sought an un
derstanding immediately after
those elections.
Republican Senators suggest,
therefore, that since he disdains
the "advice and consent" of the
Senate on appointments, the im
passe can be bridged by pigeon
holing hlg New Deal recommend
ations, thus enabling him to
make interim appointments (af
ter congress adjourns) to contin
ue only until the new Eighty
First Congress convenes next Jan
uary. In the meantime there Is that
all-important election In Novem
ber. With factions of the Demo
crat Party now In revolt against
the President and Impartial polls
pointing to a Republican land
slide, Senate leaders see no rea
son why Mr. Truman should be
allowed to hand out large-term
political Jobs for his favorites.
Back of the row of trees be
tween the machinery and the hill
runs the North Fork of the ohn
channel was projected by the Soil channel for a mill pond. The new
Conservation Service but was not big machines bog down occasion
undertaken due to removal of the ally, once during the short visit
Day river in a channel made by camp from that vicinity. Here we of the Heppner chamber of com
the Emory Moore equipment see the big carrvall being boost- merce deleaation at the time thts
when the Heppner Lumber com- ed up the bank by two tractors, picture was taken,
pany decided to dredge the old I one in front and one behind. The
OUR DEMOCRACY-
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IN THE DECLARATION OF INOEPENDENCE
OUH FOREFATHERS PRESENTED TO THE
WORLD A NEW CONCEPT OF INDIVIDUAL
FREEDOM WHEN THEY ESTABLISHED
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPIMESS AS ONE
OF THE INALIENABLE RIGHTS OF MAN.
Today we continue to recosnize and cherish
THIS RIGHT OF THE INDIVIDUAL WITHOUT AHV
RESTRICTIONS OTHER THAN A PROPER RESPECT
FOR THE SAME RIGHTS OEMS NEIGHBORS TO
CHOOSE HIS OWN GOALS, TO SET HIS OWN SIGHTS,
TO DREAM AND FULFILL HIS DREAMS.
THIS FREEDOM FOR THE BUILDING
OF A FULL ANO HAPPV LIFE IS A
CARDINAL PRINCIPLE OF TRUE DEMOCRACY.
FORMER RESIDENTS VISIT
Visitors in Heppner Tuesday
from their homes in Huntington
Beach, Cal., were Mr. and Mrs.
Seymour Wilson and Mr. and
Mrs. F. A. Wilson. The Seymour
Wilsons were residents of Morrow
county years ago, living on the
McNab ranch below lone, which
they still own and which is now
farmed by Ellis Pettyjohn. The
purpose of their visit here was to
sell the property. They made the
trip by car, coming from southern
California via highway 395 to Mt.
Vernon, thence by the John Day
and Heppner-Spray highways in
to Heppner. The elder Wilsons
left the county in 1919 and have
visited here only occasionally
since.
To the Hon. Karl Stefan, (R-Neb.)
came a postcard from a Brooklyn
woman asking for some inform
ation about Nebraska." The card
was addressed simply to "The
Nebraska Embassy, Washington,
D. C."
This is an eminently rpason
able point of view. The question
is not the integrity or lovaltv of
the Truman backed annointces.
but whether those men can be
expected to cooperate with a Re
Dublican President in achieving
the objectives for which his ad-
ministration stands those objec
tives having been approved by
the citizenry in November. A Re
publican President certainly
would not represent the New
Deal, and therefore, certainly
should not be expected to be
hamstrune bv the remnants nf
an outmoded, out-of -office. New
Deal regime.
This position Isn't something
the Republican Senators invent
ed. In ',2 after Mr. Roosevelt
defeated Herbert Hoover, the Re
publican Party, holding Senate
majority for the short session,
had amnio votes to confirm anv
nominations Mr. Hoover wanled
to make. However, Senator Rob
inson of Arkansas, the late min
ority leader, served not ice that
NO major nominations would he
considered until the advent of the
Roosevelt Administration. Since
the Democrat minoritv coulfl
blockade the Senate by filibuster,
Robinson could, If necscsary,
make good his threat.
Then whv." Renub can lead'.
ers ask, "should this Congress let
a lame-dunk President saddle the
country with his brand of politics
for years to come, when he and
his brand of politics are about to
be fired out of power? '
MORE EMERGENCY FUNDS
NEEDED
The state veterans' administra
tion this week dropped the super
vision of Oregon schools now par
ticipating in the veterans train
ing program into the lap of Sup
erintendent of Public Instruction
Rex Putnam. As there is no mon
ey in the state education derart
ment budget to carry on such
projects an appeal must be ni.cle
to the state emergency ooard
which meets late this week to
consider a $20 monthly increase
for state employees.
The bottom of the emergency
fund barrel will be visible should
the request of both deparnients
be granted. It is estimated that
the department, of education will
need $23,800 to finance the em
ployment of five inspectors to
check on the GI training pro
gram now being carried on in the
252 schools in the stae until the
1949 legislature can provide mon
ey from the general fund.
The state employees salary
boost will require $265,000 from
the emergency fund to tide over
the next seven months until the
1949 legislature meets.
OREGON MAY GO DEMOCRATIC
The democrats made a great
percentage of gain in registra
tions for this year's presidential
election than the republicans and
they also made greater gain In
numbers. If this keeps up Ore
gon will soon be in the demo
cratic column. Registrations In
dicate there are more democrats
in the great population gains this
state has made in the last few
years.
David O'Hara, chief of the el
ection department of state made
a close reckoning Monday on the
total registration of voters for the
May 21 primary election. The re
turns from all counties were com
plete with one exception. The fig
ures show there will be close to
a total of 630,000, with 320,000
republicans and 300,000 demo
cats. In 1941 the total was 602,
013 with 302.805 republicans and
255,48-1 democrats.
INCOME TAXES HEAP UP
Income taxes are running 50
per cent higher than last year,
State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott
said Monday. Collections this
calendar year are $31,000,000. At
the same time last year collec
tions were only $20,339,000.
UNEMPLOYMENT DROPPING
State unemployment benefits
during the past month were 23
per cent less than for the pre
vious thirty days, but were about
the same as in the same period
in 1947, the state unemployment
commission reveals.
April benefits totaled $731,936
for workers covered by the state
law, and $619,950 for unemployed
war veterans. Benefits paid In the
first four months of 1918 totaled
$6,548,033, or 3 per cent less than
in the first four month of last
year. Of the workers getting ben
efits in April, 23 per cent were
jobless loggers and lumber work
ers. The Portland area account
ed for almost half the unemployed.
LIQUOR PROFITS DISTRIBUTED
Oregon cities received $112,344
this week from sales of liquor
permits in the first quarter of this
year. Cities get half of the pro
ceeds of the permit sales, with
the welfare fund getting the oth
er half.
Amount distributed to cities In
cludes: Portland $51,464, Salem
$5,208, Eugene $3,511, Klamath
Falls 02.780, Medford $1,901, A
toria $1,750, Bend $1,688. Baker
$1,574, Pendleton $1,490, Corval-
lis $1,414, La Grande $1,305, The
Dalles $1,055, Oregon City $1,302,
Grants Fass $1,015.
CAPITA LNOTES AND QUOTES
General Thomas E. Rilea, Ore
gon's adjutant general, is In
Washington, D. C, this week
where he was summoned for ah
important conference on selective
service and National Guard leg
islalion....The state highway
commission has called for bids
on 12 projects estimated to cost
$1,600,000. Bids will be opened In
Portland May 24 and 25. Included
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Veterans of Foreign
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Meetings 2nd and 4th Mondays at
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JOS. J. NYS
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Peters Building, Willow Street
Heppner, Oregon
Saw Filing &
Picture Framing
0. M. YEAGER'S SERVICE STORE
Phone 2752
J. 0. TURNER
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Phone 173
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Heppner, Oregon
W. MAHONEY
ATTORNEY AT LAW
General Insurance
Heppner Hotel Building
Willow Street Entrance
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
Citizens having matters for dis
cussion, please bring before
the Council
Morrow County
Abstract& Title Co.
INC.
ABSTRACTS OF TITLE
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Office in Peters Building
Morrow County
Cleaners
Box 82, Heppner. Ore.
Phone 2632
Superior Dry Cleaning
& Finishing
N. D. BAILEY
Cabinet Shop
Lawn Mowers Sharpened
Sewing Machines Repair
Phone 1485 for apolntmei
or call at shop.
Heppner, Oregon
Jack A. Woodhall
Doctor ol Dental Medicine
Ullice i- nst Hoor ManK Bldg.
i'liune 2cA2 Ucppner
Dr. L D. Tibbies
OSTEOPATHIC
Vii4ician & Surgeon
First National Bank Building
lies. Ph. 1162 ' Olfice Ph. 492
A. D. McMurdo, M.D.
PHYSICIAN S SURGEON
Trained Nurse Assistant
Olfice in Masonic Building
Heppner, Oregon
Dr. C. C. Dunham
CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN
Office No. 4 Center SL
House culls made
Home Phone 2583 Olfice 2572
C. A. RUGGLES Representing
Blaine E. Isom
Insurance Agency
ftMjne 723 llcppaer, Or
" DR. J. D. PALMER
DENTIST
Office upstairs Rooms 11-12
First National Bunk Bldg.
Phones: Office 783. Home 932
Heppner, Oregon
Settles Electric Service
for prompt, eflicient
WIRING
Phone 2542
Estimates Free 5-9p
in the projects is the reinforced
viaduct on the Silver Creek Falls
highway. .Continued wet ground
that has held back planting of
beans and beets will do little
damage according to field men
unless crops come on all at once
and pile up at the processing
plants. . . Oregon Is far behind the
national average in relation to
hospital beds, nurses and doctors,
say state hospital officials. The
national average Is one nurse for
veery 316 persons, Oregon's stat
istics show one for every 496 per
sons. ..."By the end of the bien-
mum, June 30, 1919," says State
Treasurer Leslie M. Scott, "the
state of Oregon will have a sur
plus of Income taxes totaling $51
million."
War Assets Administration is
reaching the point where it costs
almost as much to sell an artirln
as is realized from the sale. Glen
n. uavis, ivi.u
starting a skunk farm so the gov
ernment won't stick its nose In
his business. Frederick (Colo.)
Farm and Miner.
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Thompson
are on vacation this week at the
coast. They left Sunday, accom
panied as far as Portland by Mrs.
Ida J. Grimes who will spend a
few weeks in the oity.
Just heard of a guy who was
HEPPNER
GAZETTE TIMES
The Heppner Gazette, established
March 30, 1X83. 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.
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O. G. CRAWFORD
Publisher and Editor
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