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;sr.ao;i historical society tUBLIC AUDITORIUM PORTLAND, ORE. Heppner Gazette Times Heppner, Oregon, Thursday November 25, 1948 Volume 65, Number 36 City ami Chamber Of Commerce Will Bid Wheat League Invitation to Be Extended to Group At Condon Meeting Heppner will again make a bid for the annual convention of the Eastern Oregon Wheat league with the hope that the organiza tion will accept an Invitation to meet here in 1949. Both the citv government and chamber ol commerce have gone on record as favoring the move to invite the wheat raisers and the Morrow county member of the executive committee of the league, Don Hel iker of lone, will go to the con vention prepared to present Hepp ner's offer. This city made a bid for the 1948 convention when the wheat league met in La Grande, but Condon was better organized for presenting its invitation and the league accepted. Having sanctioned the invita tion, the city dads and the cham ber of commerce will be saddled with the responsibility of arrang ing housing for guests and places of meeting. When the league met here in 1941 the gymnasium at the school was utilized for the main meeting place. Committee rooms were provided at the Elks building. Housing for guests was provided at the hotel, in private homes, at the CCC camp and by the railroad spotting sleeping cars at the depot. A similar ar rangement will have to be follow ed next year, unless the unheard of should happen and the civic center is improved to the point where it would be available for both meeting place and banquet hall. This would still leave guest housing on about the same basis as In 1941, with more people to be taken care of in private homes. The matter of providing a ros ter of names of ex-service men, Including the gold star names, is up before the chamber of com merce again after a lapse of two or three years. The subject was brought up at the meeting on November 15 and was again dis cussed briefly at Monday'! lun cheon. President O'Connor said he would call meeting of the board of directors soon and that plans for completing the project would be formulated and a re port made back to the member ship. President O'Connor also pre senlpd the matter of instituting a plan to cope with outside ped dlers and solicitors, some of whom operate under somewhat dubious circumstances. His plan would be along educational lines, to familiarize the people with some of the practices engaged In by the Itinerants. o Committee Set Up To Administer '49 Triple A Program Delegates from the nine com munities in Morrow county met at the county courthouse, Tues day, November 23, to elect the county committee to administer the AAA program for the 1949 year. The newly elected commit tee Is as follows: R. S. Thompson, chairman, Heppner; L. L. Howton, vice chairman, Lexington; D. J. Kenney, regular member, Irrigon; Donald E. Heliker, first alternate, lone; Raymond Lundell, second alternate, Eightmile. The newly elected committee men for 1949 are as follows: North Heppner: H. L. Duvalfc chairman; vice chairman, W. E. Hughes; regular member, Jim Valentine; first alternate, Ray K. Drake; second alternate, Gerald Swaggart. South Heppner: Walter Wright, chairman; A. C. Bechdolt, vice chairman; Frank E. Parker, reg ular member; Howard Evans, first alternate; Claude Buschke, second alternate. Morgan: Roy Llndslrom, chair man; Cecil Thome, vice chair man; Victor R. Rietmann, regu lar member; David Baker, first alternate; Albert Llndstrom, sec ond alternate. Eightmile: Frank Anderson, chairman; Chas. Carlson, vice chairman; Harley Anderson, reg ular member; Earl McKlnney, first alternate; Laurence Becket, second alternate. Lexington: Sam G. McMillan, chairman; Donald Campbell, vice chairman; Millard Nolan, regular member; Vernon Munkers, first alternate; Norman Nelson, sec ond alternate, Apline: A. C. Llndsey, chair- man; L. L. Howton, vice chair- man; Harold G. Campbell, regu- lar member; Lloyd Morgan, first alternate; Wm. J. Doherty, sec ond alternate. lone: Donald Heliker, chair man; E. Markham Baker, vice chairman; Milton Morgan, regu lar member; Lloyd Rice, first al ternate; Donald McElllgott, sec ond alternate. Irrigon: Paul Slaughter, chnlr Continued on page six Heppner Woman Marooned In flebraska's Worst Blizzard To most of our readers, reports of the blizzard in the middle west last week probably meant noth ing more than Just another storm of unusual proportions, but to one Heppner family at least It was a definitely serious matter. On Monday, November 15, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Pate received a message conveying the sad news that Mrs. Pate's father had died. Mr. Pate took her to Pen dleton Tuesday evening to catch the Streamliner to Omaha, Neb., from where she would go by oth er transportation to the home of her parents at Butte,(in north cen tral Nebraska. The trip to Oma ha was uneventful and it looked like she would reach her destina Hon on schedule. The bus from Omaha had made about 140 of the 200 miles to Butte when the storm broke, a blizzard that piled the snow up so fast the driver could not see the road ten feet ahead and when efforts to force the big machine over a small hill failed he was obliged to back up for two miles before finding a place to turn around. This was outside of Creighton and pass engers were returned there and put up at the small hotel, which Mrs. Pate said was fairly bulging Random Thoughts... When the Heppner chamber of commerce was organized nine years ago, one of the first mea sures to come before the young club was the matter of how to discourage itinerant peddling and soliciting of funds. A plan was adopted whereby merchants and others were provided with cards printed in large enough type to be read at several feet distant which was worded some thing like this: "We do not sub scribe to anything not sanction ed by the Heppner Chamber of Commerce." In the possession of the secretary of the club were other cards stating in effect that "The credentials of Mr. (or Mrs.) Blank have been duly examined and are found to be (or believed to be) authentic." This, when signed by the secretary was giv ing official sanction of the cham ber of commerce to the appli cant's request for permission to carry out his work. In recent years there has been less vigilance on the part of the chamber of commerce with regard to the matter of discoruaging peddling and solicitation of funds for various causes. As time goes on there is more activity In these lines and the chamber of com merce now feels that It is time to put a damper on the activities of some types of "salesmen" and solicitors. Jack O'Connor, president of the CC, Monday related an incident at his home which Mrs. O'Connor handled in a proficient manner. A magazine salesman, one of a crew turned loose on the com munity recently, rapped at the O'Connor door. Mrs. O'Connor re sponded. After the chap had in troduced himself he launched forth on his sales talk and when he slowed down a little for air she cut in to ask him if he had the sanction of the chamber of commerce to solicit subscriptions in Heppner. Undaunted by the query, he produced a card which had been supplied by the house for which he worked and contain ing the words Chamber of Com merce, in front of which had been inserted in writing, "Heppner." To the uninitiated this would be sufficient, but Mrs. O'Connor no ticed that the card contained no signatures of "president" and "secretary." The young man glib ly informed her that his com pany, or boss, supplied the sales men with these cards and that they were "getting by" with them. When she Informed him that her husband was president of the local chamber of com merce, he said, "Give me that card! I see I'm In the wrong place!" Shortly thereafter he was seen getting into a station wag on, which appeared to be the mode of transportation for the group, and nothing further has been seen of the wagon or Its contents hereabouts. As a word of caution, if there are others who are approached by house-to-house canvassers and they produce a "Chamber of Commerce card," it would be well lo see if it has the authentic sig natures of (he president and sec retary of the local organization. Wonder what became of the "civil war" which was supposed to be carried into local territory this past week-end? Was there too much warning about the Im pending attack and too much nrennrntlnn hv officials In arnot the Invaders? It is Just as well that the feud end before serious consequences result. It is typical of the young bloods that they give vent to ex cess energy ndw and then in a lively scrap, but when the de struction of property is Included in their exercises It is time to call a halt on their activity. From all aecouits the fracas over in the west end of Umatilla county week before last was no boxing Contir'ied on pagt 8 with people at the time she wrote her husband. Due to the ferocity of the storm, which reached a velocity of 85 miles per hour, telephone and tel egraph lines were put out of commission. She could not get in touch with her mother at Butte but did succeed in conveying her plight to a relative in another town. The strange thing about the storm was that an electric storm got mixed up with the blizzard. While Mrs. Pate was talking on the telephone lightning struck somewhere in the vicinity and she experienced deafness in her left ear as a result of the "jolt" that came through the receiver. Creighton is a small town, ac cording to Mr. Pate probably 600 people. Electricity was shut off, so there were no lights, no radio, no communication with the outside world nothing to do but just keep as comfortable as pos sible and hope for the storm to subside. On the bus carrying Mrs. Pate to her father's funeral were many boxes of flowers for his services. She feared that these might be frozen before they reached Butte but nothing could be done about them. Crawford-Horton Vows Pledged at Portland Church A wedding of interest to many Heppner people was solemnized at the Church of St. Michael and All Angels in Portland at 2:30 o'clock p.m. Sunday, November 21, when the Rev. Val Spinoza read the Episcopal ceremony uniting Miss Jo Ann Crawford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. WiV Ham V. Crawford, and Mr. Rich ard Purcell Horton. The bride was attended by Mrs. Hugh V. Craw ford and Mrs. Arthur Walters. William Duddleson was best man. Ushers were Hugh V. Craw ford and Donald E. Turner, cou sins of the bride, and her brother-in-law, Richard Zeisler. A reception was held in the parish hall following the cere mony. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Turner rep resented the bride's Heppner rel atives at the wedding. Mrs. Hor ton. is JPhlece of Mrs. Turner, Mrs. Raymond Ferguson, Mrs. Leonard Schwarz and J. V. Crawford on her father's side, and of Mrs. Al va Jones and D. A. Wilson on her mother's side. The groom is a nephew of Tom Purcell, publisher of the Gresh am Outlook and former presi dent of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers association. WEDDING DATE SET Mrs. Echo Palmateer announ ces the forthcoming marriage of her daughter, Laurel Ann, to Mr. Pete Cannon. The event will take place at 3 o'clock p.m., Sunday, December 12, at the Cooperative Church of lone. A reception at the American Legion hall will follow the ceremony. Relatives and friends have been extended an Invitation to attend the wed ding and reception. PLEDGED TO FRAT Thomas Hughes of Heppner has been pledged as a member of Iota Omega Mu, one of the twelve Greek letter organizations on the campus at Linfield col lege In McMinnville. A total of 184 acceptances was announced 1 at Jhe completion of rush week recently. Guests at the D. H. Jones home, for Thanksgiving are Mr. and Mrs. C N. Jones of Kennewick, Wash. The men are brothers. Cast of "A Mind of Her Left to right: Colleen Connor, Gerald Bergstrom, Rose Pierson, Norman Ruhl, Marlene BuBois, A crowded auditorium greeted the young thespians at the gym nasium Friday night when the Juniors of Heppner high school presented a three-act comedy, "A Mind of Her Own." The cast had been well select ed and expertly coached so that the finished product gave much pleasure. The skit was clever, Accommodations To Be Plentiful At Wheat League Meet Condon Preparing To Entertain Big Crowd December 2-4 There'll be plenty of accom modations in Condon for the an nual meeting there of the East ern Oregon Wheat league from Dec. 2 to 4, Gilliam county repre sentative Jack Smith told the league's executive committee in Pendleton Monday. Besides completing arrange ments for housing and food, the executive committee has schedul ed some top-flight speakers and demonstrations. Of special interest to growers and their wives, a demonstration at 7:45 p.m., Dec. 2, the opening day, will illustrate steps the mil lers are taking to increase wheat flour consumption. Using audio-visual aids, Her man Steen, executive vice-presi dent of the Millers National Fed eration, and Mrs. Wilma Lohmey- er, nutrition expert, will show how the millers are conducting their $2,500,000 advertising and educational campaign. Among the speakers and parti cipants scheduled for panel dis cussions are OSC President A. L. Strand; Dr. C. E. Rist, head of the research laboratory; Fred Enter mille, from the Production Mar keting association in Washing ton, D. C; William A. Haley of Seattle's Fischer's Flouring Mill; Robert Fletcher of Walla Walla, representing the Northwest Crop Improvement association, and E. R, Jackman, extension specialist in farm crops. Persons desiring to attend the annual convention are asked to write H. M. Bull, Condon, indicat ing the number of persons in their party and the date of ar rival. Dinner, Bazaar at lone Big Event of Current Week End Entertainment of a wide var iety awaits the public this week end when the Home Economics club of Willows grange stages its annual dinner, bazaar, carnival and dance at the hall in lone. Dinner will be served at 6 p.m., continuing until 7:30. (It mat ters not to the Home Ec ladies how much you" may eat today, they know you will not be able to pass up their fine dinner.) Sale of fancy work will also start at 6 oclock and there will be many nice articles to help in making Christmas gift selections. Between the dinner hour and the opening of the dance there will be a carnival for young and ojd alike. Dancing will round out the eve ning. The music will be provid ed by the Rim Rock Serenaders. HERE FOR R.A.M. MEETING Walter Jaeger, Paul Jaeger and Martin Jackson of Condon; An drew J. Slaig, John F. Putnam and Harry Myers of Fossil, and J. O. Hays and Al Rudd of Kin zua were in Heppner Friday eve ning to Attend a special meeting of Royal Arch Masons, called for the purpose of initiating a class of candidates. Another special meeting has been called for this Saturday evening for the same purpose. Rev. John Runyan and family are eating their turkey at the home of friends in Prosser today. Own' Rita Johnson, Darlene Wise; standing Vesta Cutsforth, Mrs. Marie Clary, coach; Bob Berg packed with humorous situations and - the young people put it I across in a fine manner, making for an evening of fun and laugh ter for old and young alike. I The young college daughter brought a couple of her friends home with her much to the dis tress of her father and amaze ment of her mother. Each guest March of Dimes To Be Headed By fCharles Ruggles Machinery was set up here the past week end for the annual March of Dimes campaign when Felix Montez, Portland, met with local supporters of the national movement to combat the gieat enemy of mankind polio. C. A. Ruggles of the Blaine E. Isom insurance agency, was chosen chairman of the organization which includes Henry Tetz as vice chairman; Mrs. Lucy E. Rodgers, secretary; Merle Becket, treasur er; Gordon Grady, campaign di rector for Heppner, and the post masters of the other towns of the county as directors for their re spective communities, and the Gazette Times as director of pub licity. Ruggles succeeds Francis Nick erson, who headed the organiza tion in the county for two years, resigning early In the fall when he deckled to accept a position in Chicago. Reports from over the state and nation indicate that there is an upsurge of the dreaded crippler killer over the country and that it will be expedient for all sec tions to make ample financial preparation to cope with the situ ation. Morrow is one of the few Continued on page six strom, stage manager; Loren Pieper, Betty Graves; seated Jim Orwick, Rachel Cox, Mar lene Turner. influenced the young lady until her younger brother and sisler Joined her admirer In awakening her. The mother's checking ac count got out of hand and a housekeeping check marked NSF rflUSPrt thp vnnniy wnmnn In tnmn - - J----T- a i uic ivuviuamil nun ni l kiiiiii was bankrupt. Complications en sued, the unwinding of which caused much merriment. Girl Scout Troop Holds Award Court At Monday Meeting Girl Scout troop No. 1 held an investiture ceremony and court of awards in the Masonic hall on Monday, Nov. 22. The traditional candle lighting ceremony was used. The girls marched in and formed a horseshoe and gave the pledge of allegiance followed by singing America the Beautiful. Thirteen candles were lit; three shining as symbols representing the three parts of the Girl Scout promise and ten standing for the Girl Scout laws. The troop sang "The Girl Scout Chant." The following girls were pre sented to their leaders, Mrs. Ste phen Thompson and Mrs. Claude Graham, for investment: Nancy Anderson, Lynda Borman, Mar garet Bristow, Meredith Thomp son, Barbara Warren, Joanne Keithley. Sandra Lanham. Alice Peterson and Judy Thompson. Each received the official Girl Scout pin, Brownie wings, troop numeral and membership stars All the members sang "When E'er You Make a Promise." The cook badge, the first one they received for proficiency, was awarded to Sandra Lanham, Al ice Peterson. Meredith Thompson. Mary Ruth Green, Lynda Borman, Kay Valentine, Judy Thompson. Nancy Anderson, Adelia Ander son, Sally Palmer, Jean Marie Graham, Nancy Ball, and Barbara Warren. The Flower Finder badge was received by Adelia Ander son. , The entire troop was presented with their troop crest, the pine cone. Jean Marie Graham gave a talk on the Juliette Low World Friend ship fund. The main purpose of this fund is to assist in promot ing Girl Scouting all over the world. The girls brought pennies, as many as they were old, which were dropped in the wishing well. These will be sent as their con tribution to this fund. Following the ceremony cook ies and punch were served by the troop committee, Mrs. James Val entine. Mrs. James Thompson, Mrs. Alena Anderson. Mrs. Ray mond Ferguson and Mrs. Con ley Lanham. Special guests for the afternoon were the members of the newly organized Girl Scout troop 4 and their leader, Mrs. John Runyan. and members of troop 2 and their leaders, Mrs. Harold Becket and Mrs. Harry Van Horn. Other guests were the girls' mothers, their grandmothers, teachers, and a few special friends. CHESS AND CHECKER CLUB ORGANIZED HERE Exponents of chess and check ers, of which there are quite a number hereabouts, met at the Hotel Heppner Monday evening and organized a club. According to Sheriff Clarence Bauman, one of the chiefest ex ponents of the games, anyone in terested in either chess or check ers is Invited to Join the group. It Took 35 Years To Make Reunion Dream Come True By Delpha Jones A drecm of 35 years came to a reality last Frday at 3 p.m. when Adolph Majeske. resident of Lexington for many years, met his 81 year old mother at the airport in Pendleton. Ernestine Majeske was considered one of the misplaced persons following the war in Germany and has since the war been working for a family there. Mr. Majeske has tried for quite some time to get his mother tq this country, and with the aid of quite a number of other people and organizations especially the Red Cross, he has again got to see her after 35 years. Mrs. Majeske speaks no English but is rapidly becoming acquainted with the customs of this country. She was quite ill on the trip, but is improving. The ship on w hich she came to this country was one of the U. S neV vessels, the "Ernie Pyle," it being the ships maiden journey. The sea voyage was three days longer than scheduled due to stormy weather. From New York she flew directly to Pendleton. The shipping point in Germany- was Bremerhaven. to where she was taken from her home. She is the aunt of Mrs. G. Hermann. Mrs. Alex Hunt and Henrv, Jul ian and Fred Rauch of Lexington. Their mother is also in German;.. Mrs. Majeske has had many guests, among them her grand daughter and husband. Mr. anJ Mrs. Ronald Ansted from Echo. Joe Feathers has been confin ed to his home by illness. Miss Ethel Merriman. new- tea cher in the Lexington school, started her work on Monday. She is teaching the 7th and 8th grades and high school math. She just lacks a little in having her Ph.D. degree. The Amicitia club met at the home of Mrs. C. C. Carmichacl Wednesday night with two tables playing. The Lexington high school has put out their first Rabbit Tracks, the local school paper, it being out Wednesday. The paper is big ger this year and it is hoped thai it can be put out once a week, with the money going to help the athletic teams. Firtex and "other building ma terials have arrived and the men of the community are beginning work on the Christian church. It is hoped to redo the inside and get new curtains. It is hoped this can be completed by Christmas. The Mothers club gave a Thanksgiving party in the lunch room of the school house on Tu esday for the first, second and third grades. The table was dec orated with turkeys and colonial men and women, with each place card being a turkey. Thanksgiv ing motif on the napkins, and the cake was a large sheet cake with three turkeys on it. Served with the cake was hot cocoa. Mrs. Sor lien gave a short talk on Thanks giving and why we celebrate it and after a short prayer refresh ments were served. The hostesses were Mrs. C. C. Jones, Mrs. Hen derson, Mrs. Messenger and Mrs. Griffith. The Prescott football team mo tored to Lexington Friday where they defeated the Lex team with a score of 20-38. It is well to re member that Prescott is a con siderably bigger school with over 50 in high school. The freshmen are starting prac tice on a play under the direc tion of Mr. Baker. The new science demonstra tion table has been installed in the science room of the local school. This is a fine table and one of the latest models. Eugene Sawyer who makes his home w ith the Ways is spending the holidays at Newberg. Edna Jane Ivey. who has been staying at the C. C. Jones home, is now making her home at the Lonnie Henderson's. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. McMillan were The Dalles visitors on Wed nesday. Charles Buchanan who spent two weeks in Ellensburg with Jack Dawson is home again. The local band played in a pep rally in the street Thursday. Those who heard the band were quite pleased, and wish the band lots of success. The director. Miss Joy Gerharz, hopes that they'll j be able to play at the basketball ' games. I Kenneth Peck spent the week end in Eugene where he visited I his wife who is spending some time at the home of her parents. j He w as accompanied by his mo- ither, Mrs. Emma Peck, who vis ited friends in Corvallis. While there she visited "Grandma" Johnson and reports her fine. Community Chest Quota 73 Per Cent A report from Oregon Chest headquarters in Salem Indicates that the quota lacks more than 25 per cent of being paid up In Morrow county. The exact figure is not at hand at the moment but is slightly under 71 per cent, which leaves approximately $i;iHl to raise if this county is to be In eluded In the "user the top" class The drive is still open and contributions will he cheerfully accepted by the chairman, Dr. C. I'. Dunham ami the secretary, J K. Huffman. To date only three counties have reached their goals but several others lack only a few points of going over. In past years Morrow county has been one of the first to make the grade. Mr. and Mrs. James Harrnlt are here from Corvallis to participate In Thanksgiving festivities at the D. A. Wilson home.