2 Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon, Sept. 23, 1948
EDITORIAL
NATIONAL DITOWAI
Fire Losses Something to
Think About
Beginning Sunday, October 3 and continuing
until October 9, the nation will observe Fire Pre
vention Week. This week has been so designated
by President Truman who, when issuing the pro
clamation stated: 'The critical shortage of many
materials, and especially the shortage of houses
and other buildings, makes it imperative that the
nation' fire losses be substantially curtailed."
It requires almost constant watch and a steady
educational program to accomplish even a mea
sure of caution in relation to fire. But if our read
ers will take the time to look over the appalling
losses suffered on the farms of the country alone
it should be a step in advance toward fire pre
vention. In a current number of the National Grange
Bulletin we find this astounding record: "Once
every 15 minutes, four times every hour, 100 times
every day, 3000 times every month, 40,000 times
every year fire attacks farm homes and build
ings in the United States. Ten farm people every
day, 300 farm people every month. 3500 farm peo
ple every year die in these fires."
Those who can speak with authority on the
subject declare that 9q per cent of these fires are
due to carelessness.
Fire losses in the United States during recent
years have reached the imposing total of $750,
000,000 annually. Careless cigarette smokers are
the worst offenders.
Consider the figures submitted herewith and
during the next two weeks read and digest all you
can relative to fire causes and how to prevent
this terrific toll of life and property. Inspect your
house for any possible causes and remove or
remedy anything that holds even a remote pos
sibility of starting a fire and above all, if you
can't get along without smoking in bed, don't
go to bed.
It's Up To Federal Agency
To anyone taking the time to consider the mat
ter it might appear that the generous people of
Morrow county have killed the hospital with their
kindness. It does look that way at first glance but
the truth is that they have only deferred the time
w hen actual construction begins. And it is all due
to government red tape; almost all, that is.
Oversubscription of the amount sought last
spring $20.000 threw the tape machine off the
track, for government agencies have to know
where all the money comes from and for what it
has been subscribed before they put their sane
tion on allotments or appropriations. That is what
is holding up the hospital deal at this time and
until the federal authorities get around to aud
iting the Morrow county hospital fund there Is
nothing more that can be done locally.
It might have becn-the part of wisdom to have
withheld all money over the $20,000 turned in in
the county court's estimate of additional funds
needed, in which event the federal agency could
have concluded the transaction in short order.
But that extra S6.000 or more put the application
back almost to the beginning and it is possible
that the agency has deferred acting on our request
for assistance until other like applications have
been cleared.
We have the assurance of the architect that
neither his concern nor the local county authori
ties can do anything about actual construction
until the government completes its end of the
bargain.
Community Chest Time Here
Starting locally this week, the annual Com
munity Chest campaign is underway. Other coun
ties started a little earlier, but here in Morrow
county it was a matter of awaiting certain deel
opments the completion of harvest and the se
lection of a new chairman. These details having
been taken care of the way is cleared for pushing ,
the campaign through to a successful conclusion.
Community Chest is not the term used currently
for the drive has been organized on a statewide
basis and is now the Oregon Chest. The benefit
ting agencies and local angles are the same.
Many charitable-minded local citizens have ex
pressed a preference in past seasons for making
one subscription cover numerous bequests. There
are eleven participating agencies under the Ore
gon Chest and it can not be said they are not
worthy. Principal among them are those caring
for unfortunate children. In 1947 direct care was
given to 3.0S6 boys and girls. These children
came from every county in Oregon. In addition,
almost an equal number of children received
assistance right at their homes in the counties.
So it can be seen that some of the money subscrib
ed may, and pobably will be expended right here.
In planning his campaign, Dr. C. C. Dunham,
county chairman, is including estimates for the
Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts and other youth move
ments with the hope that enough funds may be
raised under one campaign to meet local needs
and not necessitate further drives.
The 1948 harvest has proved that this is a land
of plenty. Most of our people are blessed with
the necessities. Many, no doubt, have a surplus.
If we remember the admonition of the Man of
Galilea, "It Is more blessed to give than to re
ceive," we will open our purses and help make
life more cheerful for those less fortunate than
ourselves. It is good business to help your neigh
bor to help himself and it is good for every citi
zen to help make the community a better place
in which to live.
3Q YEARS A
From The Gazette Times
Sept. 26, 1918
John Buseick died at Hood
River Sept. 18, aged 50 years, 2
months and 3 days, and was bur
ied in Heppner Sept. 20.
Charles Barlow and wife, ac
companied by the Misses Alma
Akers and Margaret Crawford
spent Saturday in Pendleton, go
ing over to attend the Round.
Up and get a glimpse of the
sights at Happy Canyon.
W. D. Gordon has disposed of
his Butter creek farm to Percy
Hughes and contemplates going
to Hermiston to live. He had
planned to move to Heppner but
was unable to find a house here.
Mr. and Mrs. Wate Crawford
and family and Mr. and Mrs. W.
C Palmateer and family were
Cecil visitors Sunday.
Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs.
Tyler on the arrival of a fine
healthy daughter on Wednesday
morning.
Ralph Thompson is getting the
material on the ground prepar
atory to putting up his new res
idence on the farm on Willow
creek.
Frank Fraters has just finished
his nice new bungalow on his
Eight Mile farm and will move
into it with his family.
Victor Wigglesworth and wife
visited in Heppner Wednesday.
They expect to leave soon for
Beverly, Wash., to remain for the
winter.
The annual Morrow county tea
chers institute will be held in
Heppner October 14-16. .
James Stewart, veteran editor
of Fossil Journal, has disposed
of his paper to H. J. Simmons.
Stewart is following farming and
has decided to Indulge in politics,
being a candidate for joint rep
resentative of Wheeler and Sher
man counties.
W. L. Holmes, manager of the
Tum-A-Lum Lumber company at
Lexington, was transacting busi
ness in Heppner Wednesday.
James Hart and Mrs. Ed F. Day
came up from Portland to attend
the funeral of their brother-in-law,
John S. Buseick. Mr. Hart is
still with the Imperial hotel as
steward, where he has been for
the past several years.
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Will Rogers said:
It's
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great f )lL
to be great,
but greater
to be human!"
Remember ont pledge cevers nany Red Feather
Services. Hucauwe we have a well-managed Community Chest
puiting many uix-uU, you are called on only once year for
all of them. Ha when you give, GIVE ENOUGH. ..enough
for ALL I tod Feather ervicee . . . enough for a FULL year.
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COMMUNITY CHEST
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.TCemember reading about that scared, teary-eyed
girl arrested for shoplifting? The wise judge sus
pended sentence. A Red Feather youth service stood
by the girl guided her. Now she's one of the most
popular leaders in the girls club.
(The men and women who tupport Community
Chest services like this are really human.)
Recall the 81-year-old scrubwoman so badly hurt
getting off the bus last summer? Our visiting nurse
reports she'll be up and about soon.
(Thanks to those human folks whose contributions
to our Chest keep the visiting nurse "visiting.")
And surely you saw the pictures in the paper of
those five freckle-faced redheads (all under 8) whose
father deserted the family? Day nurseries are mind
ing those youngsters while the mother is at work.
(Sort of makes you feel awfully glad you gave
liberally to our Chest last time; eh, buddy ?)
We COULD go on and on. We COULD tell you
about the baby that was "sure to die" until the.
clinic (sparked by your dollars) saved her. And we
COULD tell about our Family Service agencies and
how many bewildered couples they've helped over
domestic and financial hurdles (thanks to your
dollars!).
But Will Rogers said it all. The really "greater"
folks who support our Red Feather services don't
crave fame. THEY JUST WANT TO BE HUMAN.
We know that's how yoit feel, too. We know you'll
dig down right past your heart and deep into your
pocketbook when the Chest Volunteer calls this week .
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By CHARLES L. EGENHOAD
Washington, D. C If President
Truman had any idea of hiding
the partisan foreign policy blun-.
ders of Yalta, Teheran, Cairo and
Potsdam behind the non-partisan
position taken by the 80th Con
gress to strengthen the nation in
this international crisis, he ob
voiusly received quite a jolt from
the statement of Senator Arthur
H. Vandenburg in New York.
Senator Vandenberg's judg
ment that the nation is and
should always be united on the
basic foreign policy measures,
but that some phases of our for
eign policy should always be de
batable between the political
parties, offers a return to the
people of America a right that
was denied them in most of the
matters now creating the postwar-debacle
in Europe.
When political leaders take the
responsibility that was assumed
by those who presumed to be rep
resenting the United States in
making secret agreements with
Russia and other countries in
War-time and post-war confer
ences, they must also take the
consequences for what happens
as a result of those actions.
Senator Vandenberg's remarks
were significant since he has led
the Republican cause in using bl
partisanism as a bulwark against
any further Russian advantages
growing out of the obvious in
ability of the existing adminis
tration in Washington to cope
with the diplomatic problems at
hand.
By his remarks he issued a
double warning, first, to Joe Stal
in that we are united against
him; secondly, to Hrrry Truman
that his and his predecessor's
failures were very definitely the
subject for political discussion
among the people in this coun
try. Four years ago Gov Dewey
placed national war-time secur
ity before everything else and as
a result the full story of what
was happening to Poland and
was about to happen to other
eastern European nations could
not be told.
The importance of those fate
ful agreements to our own se
curity has not diminished with
time it has become greater. The
time has come to prevent furthf
incompetence.
Senator Vandenberg said, in
effect, that the people should
have the right to express by bal
lot their reactions to the way
things were handled at Yalta, Te
heran, Cairo and Potsdam.
When that expression is re
flected next November 2 it will
serve as an additional warning
to Joe Stalin that the nation is
united against his ilk.
Tibbies Represents
County on Oregon
Wildlife Federation
Dr. L. D .Tibbies has been ap
uointed to a eommlttpe renre-
senting this county's chapter of
the Oregon Wildlife Federation,
in a program to reorganize the
federation, according to word
from James M. Loder of Salem,
President. The local committee
will cooperate with other com
mittees throughout the state in
a move to expand the member
ship of the federation. In recent
years its active strength has been
in sportsmen's organizations, but
under the new nroeram sunnnrt
will be sought of all groups in
terested in conservation of wild
life, such as business and wo
men's clubs, farm, civic and
youth groups.
"Wildlife means not merelv
game and fish," said Loder, "but
the habitat that makes such life
possible timber, w.-itersliprig nn.
polluted streams, and so on. In
other words it means the natural
resources of Oregon. It is the
CHURCHES
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
Pastor, Shelby E. Graves
Sunday, 9:45 a.m., Bible school.
Mrs. Ora Wyland, supt. This will
be Promotion Day.
11 a.m., worship service.
7:45 p.m., evangelistic service.
Wednesday, 7:45 p.m., Bible
study and prayer meeting in the
lone Pentecostal church.
Thursday, 7:45 p.m., Bible
study and prayer meeting.
METHODIST CHUHCH
J. Palmer Sorlien, minister.
Sunday, September 26: Morn
ing worship and sermon at 11 a.
m., with potluck dinner at 12
noon. Sunday church school at
9:45 a.m. We have a class for
every age.
The Woman's Society of Chris
tian Service meets the First Wed
nesday of each month.
We are very sorry the Colored
Chorus that was to have been
with us for Sunday morning will
be unable to come because of the
gas rationing.
ST. PATRICK'S CATHOLIC
CHURCH
Schedule of services:
Mass In Heppner on the 1st
land 3rd Sundays at 9 a.m.; 10:30
Mass in lone on the 1st and
3rd Sundays at 10:30 a.m.; 2nd
and 4th at 9 a.m.
Mass on the filth Sunday one
mass only In Heppner at 9 a.m.
on the 2nd and 4th.
Holy days of obligation: Mass
in Heppner at 7:30 a.m.; mass
First Fridays of the month:
in lone at 9 a.m.
Mass In Heppner at 7:30.
LEXINGTON CHURCH
Geo. Harris Hatch, minister;
Don Campbell, superintendent.
Bible school at 10 o'clock. Wor
ship service at 11 o'clock, when
the pastor will again bring a
message on "X Church Without
A Blemish." At the 8 o'clock eve
nlng service, the junior choir will
bring a special number. The ser
mon subject will be 'The Thing
That Wine." Everyone In the
aim of the Oregon Wildlife Fed
eration to save all the natural
resources that we can, consistent
with our industrial progress. If
we permit these to be destroyed,
the Oregon we know and enjoy
will cease to exist. Our natural
resources are what makes our
state known throughout the
world. They are our greatest her
itage. And since they belong to
all of us, all of us should work
together harmoniously to save
them."
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WANT A GAME FARM?
The Oregon state game com
mission is offering for sale the
Pendleton and Eugene game
farms. The Pendleton game farm
is being consolidated with the
new modern game, .farm near
Hermiston. The farm at Eugene
is being abandoned because of
the rieveliiiiment of the area as
a residential district which makes
it difficult to operate the plant
for the raising of pheasants.
The farm at Pendleton com
prises approximately thirty acres
while the Eugene farm Is forty
eight acres.
Lexington community is invited
to come and worship with us.
Price control is an attempt to
sit on the thermometer. It would
stifle production. Gov. Thomas
E, Dewey.
Largest Stock of
Ward's Riverside Tires
in a hundred miles now at
Heppner Motors
Montgomery & Ward at Pendleton have closed their
doors, forwarding all tires to us. Our prices same as all
stores in nation.
Also new recaps and used tires
reasonably priced.
NURSERY FURNITURE
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BUGGIES-18.90 to 37.50
HIGH CHAIRS-7.50to 19.95
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Nursery Chairs
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