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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon, Nov. 8, 1948
EDITORIAL
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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
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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.
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Completely pre-cut.
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Heavy .024 aluminum.
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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
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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.
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at HEPPNER APPLIANCE
for all kinds of electrical work,
New and repair.
Phone 2542 or 1423