1 Heppner Gozette Times, Heppner, Oregon, August 5, 1948
EDITORIAL
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NATIONAL DITORIAl
SSOCIATION
When is The Right Time to Build?
The question repeatedly arises as to when the
hospital will be built. That is an answer no one
eems to be able to supply. At least right up to
the moment there has been no ready answer and
the date for the start of construction still seems
to be a matter of if and when.
It Is always easier to Judge by hindsight than
by foresight and now that the original hospital
estimate has been raised to meet advancing costs
it Is plain to see that building operations should
have been set In motion at the time the first
$100,000 fund was raised. Advances In materials
and labor since that time have discouraged build
ing, particularly that of a public nature where
funds are limited to amounts prescribed by vote
of the people.
But who could foresee to what heights material
prices and labor would soar in the next year or
so after the first tax was voted? Perhaps the hos
pital building could have been built for 5100,000
three years ago (and this Is debatable) if labor
and materials had been available. Labor might
have been not such a difficult problem but the red
tape connected with getting materials at that time
was anything but encouraging and the county
court and hospital committee quite naturally de
femed building operations until the aftermath
of war had cleared. In 1947 an effort was made
to obtain bids for construction of the building and
it was learned at that time to what extent costs
had risen. The bids were rejected had to be
because they were well above the funds in hand.
The 1948 fund campaign for private subscriptions
was successful and with completion of the plat
of the hospital site to facilitate location of power
and water supply lines all barriers will be remov
ed to the allocation of the federal assistance
funds.
The court may decide at the August meeting
to advertise for bids. That depends upon the
clearing of all details. But once again the dis
couraging factor of higher prices may be injected
into the picture, for (here is nothing of an en
couraging nature to be found in predictions cover
ing the next year or so. One eminent authority
cites the following factors: Shortage of materials,
the beginning of the pinch that will get much
worse next year; shortage of workers, due to the
drawing of men into defense plants and the
armed services; higher prices of many manufac
tured goods, especially things made of steel and
other materials. There are other reasons for ex
pecting building costs to rise but these are suf
ficient to show that unless a contractor can be
found who can build the hospital for the money
in hand it may be necessary to postpone con
struction until there is a tapering off in the labor
and materials markets.
Choose Exhibits Early
This is a busy season for folks who raise stuff
that has to be harvested, yet it is a good time
to start choosing exhibits for the forthcoming
county fair. Hastily chosen products may be good
but there will be stiff competition and exhibitors
will want only their best on display.
No doubt many growers have been and are
looking ahead, with the result that their products
will be ready when the entries open at the fair.
This will be encouraging to the fair board and
others responsible for making the fair a success.
Morrow county is rich in resources. Her soil
products and livestock rank among the best. The
county fair affords an opportunity to show the
rest of the world and our own people what is be
ing produced here. The way is open to make this
year's show bigger and better by preparing and
exhibiting the best of everything the premium list
calls for.
SO YEARS A3
Fma Hewer Guert Timet
August 8, 1918
At the meeting of the city
council Monday evening the City
of Heppner purchased a combin
ation hose and chemical car. The
contract price is $4575.
A marriage license was issued
this week to W. Pruitt Cox of
Heppner and Miss Nettie Currin
of Gresham.
F. S. Parker returned to Hepp
ner Wednesday evening from
Potland where he went last week
with Mrs. Parker who underwent
an operation last Friday at Good
Samaritan hospital for removal
of a breast cancer.
Mayor W. W .Smead, Maurice
E. Smead and wife, Dr. A. D. Mc
Murdo and Mr. and Mrs. Wilson
Bayless made up a party leaving
Tuesday morning for Odell lake
in the Cascades for a two weeks'
vacation.
Ben Yen, proprietor of the Elk-
horn restaurant, departed Wed
nesday for San Francisco where
he will board a ship bound for
China where he will remain'
about six months.
A fire Monday evening about 7
o'clock on the Frank Wilson
ranch a few miles south of lone
destroyed a setting of wheat
headings. The origin of the fire
is unknown but it is thought
that it was of incendiary nature.
Ben Griffiths left for Portland
Saturday and will take up work
in the office of the general sup
erintendent of the O. W. R. & N.
Co. Ben has been freight agent
STATE FARMS IN BIG WAT
The high cost of living went
down for a long count in one bout
this season but it won't cheer you
much unless you are a taxpayer.
State institutions with farming
lands cut the cost of food for
their wards and employees more
than 40 per cent during the fiscal
year. Savings to tne state is
shown in the difference of costs
at the state tuberculosis hospital
where no farming is done and it
costs $1.17 a day to feed a pa
tient and only 60 cents a day to
feed a growing boy at the state
training school where 430 acres
of state lands are farmed.
Approximately 5000 acres ol
state land is being farmed by
state institutions this season in
Oregon but the state board of
control intends to increase this
acreage. Secretary of State Earl
Newbry, a grower-farmer, and
the only farm representative the
state has had on the board for
almost a decade, is enthusiastic
about state institution farming
'The high quality of the pro
ducts and the fact that they are
immediately available while
fresh contributes to the health
and comfort of the unfortunate
wards," Newbry said.
At open market quotations the
products of the state farms this
vear will total si.ow.uuu oui
Quality and immediate availabil
ity considered they were worth
25 per cent more to tne lnsuiu
tions.
A cannery has been installed
at the penitentiary that will be
in full operation in a few months
and will cut the costs of canned
goods used in the winter months
TUNNEL BETWEEN STATE
BUILDINGS
A 400-foot tunnel between the
state capitol and the new state
office building is to be duiu ai
a cost of approximately 550,000.
Secetarv of State Earl Newbry
who is custodian of the capitol
and grounds, convinced other
members of the board of control
that it would save lives by re
at the local depot for the past
two months and now steps into
a better position with the com
pany. His job here is being filled
by Jasper Crawford.
Roy Neill was in from Butter
creek Saturday and reports lots
of dry weather out his way. Work
of putting up the nay crop nas
progressed well ana aiiaua is
good yield. ,
Heppner Rodeo Association
Invites You to the Second
P
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Dan
ce
H
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I "Si p'0
Princess Lorraine
Saturday Evening
August 7
Center Pavilion
Heppner
Civic
Admission $1.25 per Person (tax included)
Random Thoughts..
In these days of stratospheric
prices it is surprising, and pleas
ing, to run into an occasional bar
gain that harks back to pre-war
days. The writer had occasion to
be in Portland Friday and having
transacted his business for which
the trip to the city had been
made began to cast about for
something to kill time until the
Streamliner departed on its long
trek across mountain and plain
to Chicago. (Of course we were
only going as far as Pendleton.)
Passing by a theater it was
noted that the matinee starts at
11:30 a.m. Being Friday there
was a full program two features,
cartoon comedy, and, would you
believe it? The first installment
n The Life of Superman! And all
this for 40 cents. A four-hour
show at the rate of 10 cents per
hour!
But now with the Rodeo and
county fair about to break upon
us we can t figure out to be in
Portland every Friday to watch
the growth and development of
Superman.
Valley Falls as a name may
not mean much to the people of
the state, but it will be the center
of great interest to stockmen on
the 19th of this month. Located
north of Lakeview where High
way 395andthehighwaytoBejid
GRANT COUNTY MINING
AREA DESCRIBED 1
"Geology and Mineralization of
the Morning Mine and Adjacent
Region, Grant County, Oregon"
is the title of Bulletin 39 just is
sued by the state department of
geology and mineral industries.
The author Is Dr. Rhesa M. Allen
Jr., now professor of geology at
Virginia Polytechnic institute.
The bulletin is the result of field
work done in the Greenhorn
mountains of northeastern Grant
county during 1946 and repre
sents a part of Allen's doctorate
at Cornell university.
The bulletin may be obtained
at the department offices at
Portland, Baker and Grants Pass.
It has 48 pages of descriptive text,
photographs and maps. Special
attention is given to the economic
geology of mining properties of
the region.
o
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Thomson
are spending a ten-day vacation
with relatives in Heppner. They
make their home at Poulsbo, Wn.,
where they are surrounded by
many of the beauties of the Pug
et Sound region, but always feel
the lure of the "hills of home
and are glad when vacation time
makes it possible for them to pay
visit here..
J. O. PETERSON
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Heppner, Oregon
Veterans of Foreign
Wars
Meetings 2nd and 4th Mondays at
8:00 p. m. in Legion Hall
ducing the heavy pedestrian trav
el between the two buildings and
as a labor-saving arrangement
would soon pay for itself. The
tunnel will be eight feet wide
and seven and one-half feet high,
built of concrete. Public utility
lines will be run over the tunnel
which will be built 30 feet un
der ground. Bids on construction
will be called for this week.
PARKING METER JAYOFF
Oregon communities will col
lect more than a million dollars
this year by parking meters, and
still a place to park an automo
bile is a major problem with car
owners, John W. Kelly, executive
director of the state Post War Re
adjustment and Development
commission, reports to Governor
John Hall. Response to ques
tionnaires sent by Kelly show
there are 12,765 of these "nickel
separators" operating in the
state, from the 90 at Hermiston to
the 2,130 at Portland.
Statements received from the
following cities already operat
ing meters estimate the years
"take" should be, Portland $300,
000, Salem $109,694, Eugene $72,
000, Medford $54,000, Corvallis
$43,000. Pendleton $36,606, Al
bany $36,000, Astoria $32,400,
Grants Pass $30,000, The Dalles
$26,400, Sweet Home $26,400,
Bend $25,400, Lebanon $16,176,
Hillsboro $14,400, Forest Grove
$10,870 and Oregon City $5,760,
Kelly says, reports indicate
some cities have too many meters
and others not enough to accom
modate the public. Grocery chains
lease or purchase ample free
parking space adjoining their
stores, or they will find a location
where that is possible. This mod
em method of cooperating with
their customers is followed by
most newly constructed establish
ments. In Salem two large mer
chandising concerns who could
not arrange for parking near their
present locations are moving to
new 'buildings remote from the
city center and next to the capitol
grounds.
REHEARING ON TAX ISSUE
Former Governor Charles A.
Sprague, editor of the Salem
Statesman, this week filed for a
rehearing in the case brought by
Sprague against the state tax
commission In which the high
court held, 4 to 3, that the in
come tax surpluses can be placed
in tne general fund and appro
priated by the legislature.
$350,000 TIMBER TAX
A measure of the increased
lumber production in Oregon is
shown by the collections from the
timber tax which totaled $350,
00o during the first year of its
operation, as reported by Wal
lace & wnarton, state tax com
missioner. The tax is five cents
on each 1000 feet of timber cut.
ATTENTION!
Gf your ticket NOW
tor fit grtat
Shriners' Hospital
All Star
Football Game
Multnomah Stadium,
Portland, Saturday,
Auqutt28. 8:30 P. M.
AO Proceed, to Shrinen' Hoapital
for Crippled Children, Portland
Unit. Portland All Stan vi. State
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Ticket an foing fait I If you live
out of town, lend your check or
money order. TODAY for your
tickets at $3 each Including tax.
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PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
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.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
go their separate ways, valley
Falls will be the locale of a range
reseeding demonstration arrang
ed by the Lakeview Rotary club,
The invitation reads: "Every live
stock raiser who owns or uses
rangeland, every official of the
state and federal agencies that
manage the rangelands, every
county and state official who is
interested in helping to promote
improvements in the Western
range economy is invited to at
tend the demonstration and wit
ness the sage clearing and range
seeding developments."
'Clear sage, reseed; more grass,
more feed," is the slogan of the
demonstration.
A difference of opinion seems
to prevail between two of our
Portland ' readers both former
residents of Heppner relative to
the number of lives lost in the
Heppner flood of June 14, 1903.
The only approximate definite
figure recorded to 225. It is hoped
this will settle the difference of
opinion existing between Kather
ine (Quaid) Hofen and W. H.
"Bill" Dutton and reestablish
peace between two of Heppner's
highly respected pioneer famil
ies. The Dalles seems to be in the
throes of a whiskerino. This us
ually means a celebration of
some sort so look for the adver
tising any time. Heppner has not
gone in for that kind of publicity
but it wouldn't hurt if the Jay
cees were to get out the "Black
Maria" and start checking up on
the conduct of local citizens. This
is Rodeo season, you know.
While on the subject of cele
brations, rodeos and what not
let us not forget that this is the
100th anniversary of Oregon as a
territory. This might be used as
the theme for various floats in
the Rodeo parade, as well as the
subject for high school compos!
tions. une hundred years is a
short space of time compared
with figures contemplating the
earth's age, but the Oregon of
1848 has undergone a face lift
ing since the days of the earliest
pioneers and in this modern 1948
our grand old state Is the objec
tive of thousands of new home-
seekers and investors just as It
was when the pioneers trekked
over the plans In covered wagons
headed tor the land of promise
and opportunity.
...
Before closing this column, and
keeping celebrations, festivals
and the like uppermost in mind,
it will be fitting and proper to
announce that there will be some
thing different at Hood River this
week end. The people of that en
terprising community have band
ed together to bring in high class
talent In the first annual music
festival. Men of worldwide re
nown in the musical world will
be on hand to help inaugurate
a community enterprise which
should grow and become famous
in succeeding years. Boris Sirpo,
conductor, and Ezio Pinza, opera
star, saw so much merit in the
enterprise that they readily ac
cepted invitations to participate
in the festival. It wil be a rare
treat for those who get real joy
from this type of entertainment.
Turner, Van Marter
and Company
GENERAL
INSURANCE
Phelps Funeral Home
licensed Funeral Directors
Phone 1332 Hepnper, Oregon
Jack A. Woodhall
Doctor of Dental Medicine
Office First Floor Bank Bldg.
Phone 2312 Heppner
Dr. L. D. Tibbies
OSTEOPATHIC
Physician & Surgeon
First National Bank Building
Res. Ph. 1162 Olllce rti.
Heppner City Council A. D. McMurdo, M.D.
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
TITLE INSURANCE
Office in Peters Building
Morrow County
Cleaners
Box 82. Heppner.
Phone 2632
Ore.
Superior Dry Cleaning
& Finishing
N. D. BAILEY
Cabinet Shop
Lawn Moweri Sharpened
Sewing Machine. Repaired
Phone 1485 for apolntmei
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
Homo Phone 2583 Office 2572
C. A. RUGGLES Representing
Blaine E. Isom
Insurance Agency
Phone 723 Heppner, Ore
DR. J. D. PALMER
DENTIST
Office upstairs Rooms 11-12
First National Bank Bldg.
Phones: Office 783, Home 932
Heppner, Oregon
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for all kinds of electrical work.
New and repair.
Phone 2542
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Oscillating Fans $16.95
Fluorescent Kitchen Lights $13.50
Porch Lights $3.60
Fractional H.P. Motors for farm,
home and shop, 1-3 H.P. $31.20
Others, $21.70 to $50.40
Heppner Hardware &
Electric Co.
September 2-3-4
It Won't Be
Long N
ow!
How about your Rodeo Hat? If you plan to wear that hat
you have tucked away some place, at Rodeo time, you'd
better get it out and bring it in for cleaning and blocking.
Do it now and avoid that last minute rush.
We replace ribbons and bands.
HEPPNER CLEANERS