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Page 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon, Nov. 8, 1948 EDITORIAL Afemlee P U S 1 1 s he r I A It Was Some Election! Wrli, it's a) nin who's doing the shout- mp : Not yours tiulj nt much of it, it might be Mid. It is true ti!..t oi.'pon slipped back into the ranks of the Cvr. hut as usual, this grand old state Is doing a pionee-ing job as it did in the initiative and referendum, direct primary and other legislative reforms and it will require per haps several elections to accomplish anything in the way of pointing other western states in the right direction. In the midst of all the switchback to new deaii.-m it is hard to conceive a picture of Oregon standing out by itself but the underlying factor must lie that the state is not as industrial ized as some of its neighbors that labor hasn't a stranglehold on the electorate here. The main factor in the national picture appears to he conditions at this time. People enjoying prosperous times are less apt to unseat an admin istration than when conditions are uncertain like in the Hoover administration. This is true unless the president is weak and lacking in leadership. A large segment of the voters throughout the nation were becoming convinced that Mr. Truman was in that class and that a change of adminis tration would be welcomed just for the general good of the country. It appears that Mr Truman convinced a lot of these voters they were mis taken and whether or not he is the best man for the job he certainly showed a lot of us he knows how to campaign. He now has things the way he wanted them and it is up to him to prove if 30 YEARS AGO Heppner Gazette Times, Nov. 7, 1918 An armistice was signed by Germany and messages have been taken from wires and post ed in Heppner today. In the city election Tuesday the ticket endorsed by the women was elected with the exception of Michael Kenny, councilman, who was defeated by C. L. Sweek. Mrs. Alex Wlison died at her home in Boardman on Saturday of pneumonia following an at tack of influenza. Edward D. Rood died at his Portland home Friday morning. The remains were shipped to Heppner and on Sunday forenoon he was buried in Masonic cem etery. L. D. Neill was in Heppner Fri day from his ranch on Butter creek. He was getting question naires made up.' , TALKING NEW LEGISLATION 'There ought to be a law!" This, most of us have said a few times. Some of us too often some not often enough. However, if you have a yen to put a new law in the well-cluttered Oregon code, now is the time for action. Get your pressure group to needl ing the local legislative delega tion now. What, no pressure group? Then you'll be just another po litical gad fiy, du for a brush off. just as many elections are de cided in the lirst instead of the eleventh hour of a campaign, so are the pattern of many laws de vs. - s E. REMINGTON DAVENPORT nationally known lecturer and author of Portland will give a series of lectures and demonstrations on Professional Candy Making Adapted to Home Use Two lectures daily 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. $1 per lesson Sponsored by SorOptifftist Cltlb of Heppner NATIONAL DITORIAI illTIOI he has the stuff make a valuable of the world. A Profitable Enterprise Communities providing parties and other en tertainment for the youthful portions of the pop ulation on Hallowe'en night may well congratu late themselves on their foresight and generosity. Vandalism and other evidences of Hallowe'en pranks are so scarce as to barely remind one of the "hallowed" date on the calendar. A few soaped or waxed store and car windows were the only evidence of juvenile outbreaks in Heppner as a result of the parties provided for the young people of the community by civic and church groups. Upwards of two hundred of the younger set participated in the hayride and church parties and when the entertainment was over there w-as no tendency to consider Hallowe'en any. thing more than a date on the calendar. By contrast other towns of the district not pro viding entertainment of the youngsters suffered the usual amount of Hallowe'en pranksterism, some of it following the usual pattern of damage and more or less For the small amount of funds necessary and the limited amount of personal supervision noth ing of recent date has paid larger dividends than the Hallowe'en project sponsored by the Sorop timist club of Heppner, with financial aid from the Elks, Parent-Teacher association and the chamber of commerce. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Knappenberg have disposed of their Heppner residence property to Mrs. E. E. Campbell. They will go to Port land for the winter. Mrs. H. L. Stiles of Fort Canbv, Wash., whose husband is on his way to FTance, arrived Friday evening to stay with her mother. Mrs. Josie Jones, for the winter. Considerable damage was done to the John Kinsman residence property Tuesday evening by a fire that broke out about 10 o' cjock. In the U. S. court at Portland on Monday Joseph Handy entered a plea of guilty to the charge of making whiskey without a li cense and received sentence. Miss Margaret Crawford return ed from Melbourne, Wash., where she had been visting at the home of her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Jones for the past four weeks. signed months before legislatures convene. Electon returns have just decided the personnel of the 1949 legislature and professional and tyro lobbyists are weaving into the marble halls of the cap itol to confer with department heads and political pedants. Plots and counter-plots already are taking shape. One famous old lobbyist is reputed to have . a "threat bill" drawn for each new member of the legislature. A bill he knows the new member will go a long ways to defeat. This is one of the most vicious angles of log-rolling (you vote for my bill and I will vote for yours). After our new governor has read his message to the joint assem bly of the legislature the ancient and stealthy game of log-rolling will begin. By the use of voting machines, log-rolling could be almost en tirely eliminated, but political fixers and big pressure groups arealways against the plan. The No. 1 headache of the 1949 legislature will be the unburden ing of the taxpayer. The increas 1 MAKING 4 CLASSES 4 Monday - Tuesday November 8-9 Heppner Civic Center SSOCIATION to keep us on an even keel and contribution towards the peace senseless attempts at humor. ing expenses of a rapidly grow ing state, increasing costs of ed ucation, old age assistance and other city, county and state func tions are almost entirely saddled upon the property tax payer. Al beit he is forever cheating at his solitary game, voting upon him self financial obligations above the 6 per cent tax limitation. On ly when other sources of state revenue diminish will taxpayers fully realize these debts are a mortgage on their property. The voters of this state have knocked the sales tax cold with the ballot box so often that it may surprise you to hear it is getting on its feet again to ask for another sock. Other sources of revenue must be devised, sav ing plans formulated for these lush days to meet the necessities of lean tomorrows. Approaches in this direction that interim com mittees and other groups have discussed include luxury, diver sional and excess spending tax es. To meet the cost of increasing highway construction an extra $5 motor vehicle license fee would bring $2,000,000 a year. Then three is the biennial threat of raising the gas tax. Other early legislative propos als include one from the Grange which would change the primary election system to permit electors to nominate from a single bal lot. Kansas, Colorado, Kentucky and Oregon are the only states that put the responsibility of par doning power exclusively on the governor.. It is claimed, by recre ational experts that the best hunting and fishing states are those with the old bob-up-out-of-nowhere game wardens. Next week we will review briefs on reports of legislative interim committees. CAPITOL SHORTS Governor John H. Hall this week appointed Dr. Ralph E. Pur vine, Salem, to the state board of medical examiners The state elections division has advised the Douglas county clerk to go ahead and use the county's ballots with Sen. Cordon's name spelled "Gor don" . . . State police arrested 3,446 persons during September for motor vehicle violations 77 for drunken driving, 217 for game law violations and 387 in general PL ipss. -.v ry "; y ' ' amepaiivsjii v." spapalw, 1 7 Wtf . aJk. v JkL iiriiiKin iThAr -nth h tJk 4 Sponsored by the Morrow County Health association, the annual chest x-ray survey pro vided by the State Board of Health, Oregon Tuberculosis association, and the local health group, will be in the county November 8-12 inclu sive. The unit will be at the Boardman and Irrigon schools November 8; lone and Lexing Mr. and Mrs. Lews Halvorsen and family returned from a week's visit with relatives at Sa lem. law enforcement, the state de partment lias just reported. STATE ARCHIVIST EAST David Dunniway, state archiv ist, left this week for Raleigh, N. C, to attend the national conven tion of American Archivists. There are 34 states that now have archival departments. While east Dunniway will also attend a na tional meeting of the American Association for State and Local History, of which he is vice-pres ident. DOOLITTLE FLYER TO JAPAN Jacob Deshazer, Salem, who participated in the famous Doo little raid on Tokyo, leaves No vember 5 wth his wife and child for Japan where he will be a missionary. It was during 41 months of brutal captivity that he decided to become a missionary in Japan. He said, "I talked with God." DOCTORS TO FIGHT SUIT An anti-trust suit was filed in the U. S. justice department this weeJs against the Oregon Medical Society and Physicians Service and a number of doctors who have been prominent in the or ganization. A representative of the Physicians' Service said the charges brought under the Sher man anti-trust act would be fought out in court and service would not be interrupter while the suit is pending. Specific charges of the suit allege an at tempt to monopolize a pre-paid medical plan in this area and hindering competing organiza tions. LOW JOBLESS RECORD The lowest jobless payments since the war were reported by the state unemployment compen sation commission this week. Al though a continued influx of newcomers has boosted Oregon s labor force to a record peak of more than 650,000, payrolls soar ed even higher. Fewer than 2 per cent of Ore gon's workers drew unemploy ment checks during the past month. The total payments for the past 30 days were $333,848. This is 20.6 per cent below the same 30 day period last year. Jwbk Llfjr DESIGNED ItOMAIVTIC . f 1 ' ' I if 1 S3 Fon YOV I i 11 r7Ta new pattern impirtd by ji Jlf(i1 the perfection of Melrott l Sy plantation in hittork Natchez, I ( f,i'-. Muiiuippi n il. liiH fvo I is ton schools, November 9. and the Pacific Power and Light company office in Heppner, November 10 and 12. Sponsors say the most active period for tuberculosis is be tween the ages of 15 and 44, and they further say. "So come one, come all, come today I Please don't stay away. It's Free I Free I Free I Just come to the unt and seel" September Traffic Death Rate Worst In Oregon History Oregon suffered its worst traf fic death rate of the year in Sep tember as accidents claimed an average of more than nine lives for each one hundred million miles of travel, Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry has reported. The September death rate was 9.3 highest figure recorded thus far this year and twice as high !as the August rate, Newbry said. A total of 51 persons died as the result of traffic mishaps during the month, heaviest fatality toll since December of 1946. Death rate figures, when relate the number of lives lost to the amount of driving actually being done is used to establish a truer picture of traffic danger than to tal number of persons killed. Ore gon's average death rate for last vear was 8.6. The September toll, earlier re ported at 48, climbed to 51 be- . , , . . . , cause o delayed reports and be- cause of the subsequent death of persons originally listed as in jured, Newbry explained. He warned that early darkness and adverse weather conditions may continue to exact heavy loss es in the months ahead, and call ed on driver and pedestrians alike to be doubly alert. State wide accident reports show most traffic deaths happen after dark. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank neighbors and friends for their thoughful ness in our bereavement and for the beautiful floral tributes to the memory of Willie Carty. The Carty Family. o Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hughes over the week end were his brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. John P. Hughes of Salem and his sisters, Mrs. Dan Buffing- ton of Portland and Mrs. Mary Healy of Boardman. Mr. Buffing ton accompanied the valley folks to Boardman but was having such good luck hunting that he decided to remain there for more shooting. Mrs. Madge Bryant returned the first of the week from a trip of a month's duration, during which time she visited in the east, gonig to her old home i:i Virginia, $32.oo t p1ar-M)liln ud.ni l td. T Petersons Jewelers Portland Teacher Accepts Position in Lexington School Mrs. Delpha Jones Lexington school now has a' new teacher, Mr. G. F. Baker of Portland, a graduate of Lewis and Clark college. Mr. Baker is taking the place of Mr. Hall who .resigned and is now teaching in Gervais. Mr. and Mrs. Baker are making their home in the small house of A. F. Majeske. Mr., and Mrs. Joe S. Feathers and family were La Grande vis itors where Mr. Feathers attend ed high school work shop at the E. O. C. E. The Lexington gym now has new lights installed and ready for an active basketball season this winter. Next week is National Educa tion week and all parents are urged to visit their local school and see for themselves what then children are accomplishing. The TB x-ray unit will be in Lexington November 9 and all children and their parents are urged to have these x-rays for the safeguarding of their health as well as those around them. Alvin Alexandre resigned and left for his home In New York after six weeks' teaching in Lex ington. Mrs. R. B. Rice of Hepp ner is taking Mr. Alexandre's place temporarily. Mrs. Glenn Griffith and Mrs. Dick Griffith and families were Spray visitors over the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Jones and daughter Charlene spent the week end in Union and La Grande. They were accompanied by John Spence who visited in North Powder. Mrs. W. E. Mc Millan kept the Jones's small son while they were away. Mrs. W. E. McMillan was a The Dalles visitor one day last week. Mrs. Trina Parker and Miss Dona Barnett were week-end visitors of the Ralph Jacksons' in The Dalles. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Carmichael have as their guests Vernon uca I na. sialic a (ilc ui nit iParamount teater f Portland Leathers, stage manager of the Otto Leathers of Vancouver, Wn and Marvin Glasscock of Arling ton. The Lexington volleyball girls played the Boardman girls Tues day afternoon at Boardman, los ing the game 32-34. They motor ed over n the school bus with Mr. Baker driving them over. Howard Henderson and new bride of La Grande were visitors one day last week at the Lonnie Henderson home. Ronald Faul spent the week end in Portland. The Ne Top Pew Campfire Girls held their meeting at the home of the guardian, Mrs. Del pha Jones Wednesday. After the meeting a treasure hunt was had with the treasure being weaners and buns, which were later roast ed in the Jones back yard. Lon Edwards who has been drilling at Rome is spending a few days at home and is elk hunting at thepresent time Wilbur Steagall who had quite a serious accident some time ago and has been recuperating in the hospital in Pendleton is at home now, The first and second grades had a party in their room Friday with lovely hats and things to 'do with the gay time of Hallow- een. MELROSE la more than rich, heavier sterling silver . , . more than a lovely pattern wrought by Gorham craftimen ... It it a symbol of the American way of living . . .your way at living. See Corham Melroae at our ilore today. Real Net Income Still Shrinking, Economists Aver A third year of shrinking real net Income is ahead for agricul ture. That is the overall outlook indicated at the recent annual national agricultural outlook conference in Washington, D.C., as briefly stated by Oregon s rep resentative, L. R. Breithaupt, Ore gon State college extension econ omist. The outlook was found better for some types of farming than for others, yet it was deemea wise for all farmers to operate to meet some recession, if it comes. Real income as expressed in buying power is expected to remain far above the low pre-war level, however. Cash receipts by farmers, na tionally, might drop to a month ly rate ten per cent below 1948 a year from now but total farm expenses may decrease little, if any. Cheaper feed is expected to be largely offset by higher otner costs, Breithaupt reports. Thus. net income would be less, and the net income dollar now buys scarcely half as much as prewar. Inflationary forces in the gen eral economy still outweigh the deflationary trend in agriculture. No definite conclusion was reach ed in regard to the general non agricultural price level trend ahead, owing to uncertain inter national conditions. A summary of the general out look for 1949 and beyond, as it pertains to Oregon agriculture, is now being prepated by the ex tension economists at the college. This will be available, free, from county extension agents about mid-November. o DEWEY-PURCHASED PET AT OSC Oregon State College Charles Henry, junior student here from Salem, has introduced a much publicized pet to the campus a black cocker spaniel named Thomas E. Dewey. The 10-months old pup was presented to the Henry's by Candidate Dewey last spring when the governor's bus killed the family dog. The new pet is from a prize winning strain. Miss Letha Smith, manager of the local telephone office, return ed to her duties here the first of the week after a vacation spent with relatives in Bend. Mrs. Lennie Loudon is home again after a week spent In the hospital in Pendleton where she was treated for erysipelas. PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY JOS. J. NYS ATTORNEY AT LAW Peters Building, Willow Street Heppner, Oregon I 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 Jack A. Woodhall Doctor of Dental Medicine Office First Floor Bank Bldg. Phone 2342 Heppner Dr. L. D. Tibbies OSTEOPATHIC Physician & Surgeon First National Bank Building Res. Ph. 1162 Office Ph. 492 A. D. McMurdo, M.D, 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 2583 Office 2572 C. A. RUGGLES Representing Blaine E. Isom Insurance Agency Phone 723 Heppner. On DR. J. D. PALMER DENTIST Office upstairs Rooms 11-12 First National Bank Bldg. Phones: Office 783. Home 932 Heppner, Oregon F. B. Nickerson' INSUANCE REAL ESTATE Mortgages and Loans Phone 12 Widths 20-26-30-40 ft. Any length you require. Completely pre-cut. e Bolted 2x6 wood frames. Heavy .024 aluminum. AH paru and plans num bered, Designed for you to erect Write for illustrated pamphlet Now you can have VENETIAN BLINDS that can be cleaned quickly, easily, at home HOW THEY WORK Each slat is anchored in place by an ordinary "Snap-Fastener" attached In the "ladder" between the tapes. The "lift cords" are cleverly arranged to permit much tighter closing of the blinds and to eliminate the need for cord holes which weaken the slats. Drop In and Let Us Show You. YEAGER'S J. 0. PETERSON Latest Jewelry and Gift Goods Watches. Clocks. Diamonds Expert Watch 4 Jewelry Repairing Heppner, Oregon Veterans of Foreign Wars Meetings 2nd and 4th Mondays at 8:00 p. m. in Legion Hall baw Filing Cr Picture Framing O. M. YEAGER'S SERVICE STORE Phone 2752 Turner, Van Marter and Company GENERAL INSURANCE Phelps Funeral Home Licensed Funeral Directors Thone 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 TITLE INSURANCE Office in Peters Building Morrow County Cleaners Box 82, Heppner. Ore. Phone 2632 Superior Dry Cleaning - & Finishing N.D.BAILEY Cabinet Shoo Lawn Mowers Sharpened Sewing Machines Repaired Phone 1485 for npolntmei or call at shop. Heppner, Oregon n r i ri i llPl lie Call Settles Electric at HEPPNER APPLIANCE for all kinds of electrical work, New and repair. Phone 2542 or 1423