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Heppner Gazette Times, Heppner, Oregon, Mar. 24, 1 949
EDITORIAL
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Sewer System No. 1 Project
It is doultful if any city administration in
Hrpprifr has born confronted with as many
improvement problems at one time as the pre
sent council is facing. Most of the problems may
be grouped into one answer and that is that the
little old town is suffering from growing pains.
This does not necessarily mean that population
expansion is creating so many new and difficult
angles for the mayor and council to deal with, but
rather that a combinations of growth and keep
ing step with the modern trend are responsible.
Currently, the city dads are wrestling with sev
eral important projects extension of the water
service, street improvements, bridge construction
and, perhaps most important of all, a sewer
system. Ct s not amiss to go farther and say
that the sewer system is the most important and
should be adopted as the No. 1 project.
First of all, if there is to be a sewer system it
should be constructed before any permanent
street work is done. Lay the sewer lines first and
then put the street paving down. That will elim
inate the necessity of going in and tearing up
paving any more than is already on the streets
which should be a substantial saving.
A sower system will lend encouragement to
more and better home construction. One of the
first things considered by the prospective builder
is proper sanitation. A home-constructed sewer
unit is only temporary at the best, except where
the more expensive types of septic tanks are
installed. And there is always the probability
that the tank will overflow or give trouble of
some kind. The numerous examples here and
there over the town is evidence enough that a
permanent municipal system is desired.
It is not the purpose of this artcle to discourage
or hamper the street improvement program. If
the people residing within certain areas petition
the city to form improvement districts and are
prepared to pay the bill they should be encourag
ed to do that very thing. If the people feel that
the street improvements and the sewer project
can be undertaken at the same time, well and
good. The point beng driven towards herewith is
that in the humble opinion of this writer, the sew
er project is of first importance at this time and
that if it is to be built there should be a concerted
effort in its favor.
Just Around the Corner
Morrow county's hospital, like a once-maligned
president's promise of prosperity, is "just around
the corner," but unlike prosperity at the time
mentioned, we can locate the corner. Progress up
to the moment has brought the project to the state
where a bid for construction of the building has
been accepted by the county court. A few more
details have to be worked out with the contractors
and the bid has to be given the sanction of the
state board of health and the federal hospital
agency, and then we may expect to see the dirt
begin to fly. It is estimated that all red tape will
be cut in from ten to twenty days and that the
contractors will be moving right in.
Safe for 59,000 Years!
The railroads have long been known as a means
of transportation which carries passengers and
goods to their destination quickly, safely, and
with a very high degree of dependability, says
Industrial News Review.
Last year, according to figures recently issued
by the Association of American Railroals, marked
another major advance in railroad safety. The
passenger record was the best in 12 years. And
the employee fatality record was the best in the
NATION A I EDITORIAL
if fog
An Amazing Transformation
1882-1948
50 years in which records' of this kind have been
kept.
The chance of getting killed on a train almost
defies computation. In 1948 the railroads perform
ed the incredible total of 41,150,000,000 miles of
passenger service. Yet only 19 passenger fatalities
resulted from train accidents, and only 42 from
all causes. This marked a decrease of 28 percent
from 1947, and compares with the average during
the depression when passenger traffic was less
than half as great
When it came to railroad employees, the fatal
ity rate was 0.17 for every million man-hours
worked, a figure which casts great credit on
management and labor alike.
So much for totals. What do they mean to you,
as an individual passenger? They mean that, on
the average, you could ride 100 miles a day for
about 59,000 years before running the risk of be
ing fatally injured in a train accident! Passen
gers who keep on traveling after their 59,000
years are up, do so at their own risk.
More Cautious Than Expected
During the campaign, President Truman's heav
iest guns were trained on the Republican-controlled
SOth Congress. He aimed everything in the ar
senal at it and, as the eleciton result proved, it
paid off in the precious coin of votes.
Now the Democratic-controlled 81st Congress
has been a study in slow motion. Representative
Jackson of California said, "I'm glad Truman
called the 80th the second worst Congress in his
tory. It looks like you fellows will make the grade
for top honors." Senator Brewster of Maine ob
served that "practically the only action of the
81st Congress to date has been to increase the
Presidential salary." Senator Baldwin of Con
necticut asked, "What are the great, earth-shak
ing, country-saving, highly patriotic measures
that have been passed by the present Congress to
date?"
It hardly comes under the head of flash news
to report that the members of one major party
are doing all they can to make hay at the ex
pense of the other major party. Administration
leaders in the House and Senate have been able
to come up with only feeble defenses of the 81st
Congress. The plain fact is that the all-inclusive
Truman program has fallen into the doldrums.
There is small chance of the larger part of it
becoming law. Majority sentiment in Congress
favors making haste slowly.
The great social security bill is an example
It would raise the cost from the present $1,800,'
000,000 a year to something like $6,000,000,000.
In the words of Newsweek, 'The reaction of Con
gress to the revolutionary extension ... ranged
from a quiet lack of enthusiasm to outright hos
tility. There was bipartisan agreement that neith
er farmers nor housewives would tolerate the
niggling bookkeeping required There was lit
tle predisposition to increase payroll taxes dras
tically at this time."
The matter of keeping books in accordance with
tv,o rprieral laws is. in the view of many, a much
more important problem than is generally sup
posed. Business finds more and more of its at
tention and resources given to filling out forms
and dealing with government bureaus. And this
burden is often heaviest on small business. Big
business, with its established legal, accounting
and auditing departments is frequently able to
adjust itself to new regulations much more easily
than a small concern. That fact has Congress
worried. It isn't eager to subject more of the pop
ulation to Federal red tape.
What it all adds up to is that this Congress is
far more cautious than expected.
EDITOR'S NOTE The following
article was received some
months ago and was purposely
withheld from publication un
til this date this being the
66th anniversary of the Hepp
ner Gazette. The author was
30 YEARS AG
I Mile takes over the 560-acre farm
I of R. W. Snider in Sourdough
i canyon just east of the C. W,
Valentine farm and known as
little Margaret Becket, daughter the Perry Chandler farm,
of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Becket. I .
onH tho famine ininoH (n rpip. ! I B. Huddleston came over
Heppner Gazette Times,
March 27, 1919 !
A splendid social time was had
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Her
bert M. Olden of Fairview last
Saturday evening, the occasion , week through the agency of the
beinc the 49ih birthday of Mr. Farmer Fxrhane-p of this citvl
Olden and the 5th birthday of whereby Clive Huston of Eight lissa Marlatt, both old-time res
tating these events.
A deal was completed the past
from his Lone Rock ranch yes
terday for a brief business visit
in Heppner.
Sanford E. Clark and Mrs. Me
Now's the Time to Buy that Belated
)AMOiV Engagement
DIAMOND
1949
Of course you al
ways meant to buy
a beautiful en
gagement ring for
your wife but things interfered. Now is a won
derful time to do it . . . during our DIAMOND
JUBILEE, March 27th through April 9th.
We have a wonderful selection for the occasion.
No Gift says quite so much as a diamond.
Pete
rson s Jewelers
airplane and the air mail stamp
wore hardly dreams. The auto
mobile and the Wright Brothers'
flight at Kitty Hawk came into
my life when I was a young
man. The caterpillar tractor, the
bulldozer, and all of these new-
then in Washington, D. C, 1 tangled machines of today had
where he was private secretary not yet reached incubation,
to Senator W. Lee "Pappy" O'-1 Mother knitted our stockings,
Daniel of Texas. Having been dosed us with cream-of-tartar
a resident of Heppner for many and sulphur each spring. I have
years prior to going to Texas,
and having served as printer
and newspaperman in Hepp
ner and other points, he is well
remembered by older residents.
By Garfield Crawford
Some tremendous changes have
come to this world since my fa
ther, Jasper Vincent . Crawford,
and my mother, Elizabeth Nancy
(Dunlap) Crawford, decided to
keep me and see what I would
grow into. It was a bold dare they
accepted and no doubt many
times they regretted having act
ed too hastily.
When I was born on May 4,
1S82, the people of Waitsburg.
Washington, were pioneering in
the rough. Coal oil lamps were
gaining a supremacy over the
tallow candle and women teach
ers were becoming more numer
ous than men instructors. Teach
ing was the recommended public
career for young women. To work
in a store or an office was hardly
the thing for a young female
person to do.
The biggest celebrations of the
year were the Fourth of July and
Christmas. In my home town the
Fourth was ushered in by the
firing of anvils and went out at
night by a fireworks display from
the top of the highest hill in view
of all the town.
When I was a small boy, tim
othy, clover and all hays were
largely cut with a scythe or a
sickle mower drawn by a team
of horses. Some people still had
the cradle for cutting hays which
were to be tied into bundles.
The hand bundler would grab up
the cradled hay and with a wisp
of the same straw, bind the hay
into a tight bundle. My father
taught me how to bundle. The
cradle has vanished and the
scythe is no longer a dominant
tool in the harvest of hay and
grain. It has sunk to the low level
of weed cutters.
In the days of my youth we
had family prayers; the chldren
attended Sunday School and
church at least once a week. Our
family meals were prefaced by
my father's bref but eloquent
grace. Nearly every home had
a Civil War veteran in it and
women smokers were as scarce
as Bible-packing mamas are to
day. The electric light was not
much more than a red glow and
many towns were still burning
oil street lights atop wooden
posts to guide the pilgrims from
the church to their homes. Board
sidewalks were the foe of mud.
Some more fortunate people had
cinder walks. Big cities had some
cobblestone pavements, but con
crete and macadam paved high
ways were yet to come, leie-
phones were crude and few peo
pie had the service of the con
venience. Telegraph was the
main mode of speedy communi
cation and the "mile-a-minute"
passenger train was yet to ar
rive.
When I was a small boy all of
the boys I knew were preparing
to become railroad men" or pole
climbers for Western Union. The
seen the coming of modern print
ing, the electrotype, linotype and
teletype; color presses, offset
priming and everything that goes
with the modern printer's art. I
have lived to experience the fear
of atomic energy and to under
stand the rascality of greedy pol
iticians. I am now living in the
age of supersonic speed, radar,
rockets, rocket planes and heli
copters. When I was a boy I milked
cows and under the directions of
my mother, I churned the cream
into golden butter. If the butter
was not yellow enough to suit
mother's taste the juice of a car
rot brought up the hue. Grain
was run into sacks made In the
state penitentiary at Walla Wal
la and the cutting was done by
headers and the grain threshed
in "Pride of Washington," J. I.
Case and other separators. We
drove our cattle to market, but
today they are packed aboard
fast trains, crammed into trucks
and occasionally put down in
slaughter pens from transport
planes of the air.
In 1852 it took my grandpar
ents eight months to cross the
great Western plains to establish
a home in Oregon. I can now go
over the same route, the Oregon
Trail, in my Ford automobile in
three days and make the trip in ,
buy a haircut for a kid and an
other trio of the same would
get dad a shave.' When my
daughter came along a nickel
would buy her way into a movie,
start her to licking an ice-cream
cone, supply her a ride across
town on a street car or in a "jitney-bus,"
get her a hot-dog or
a hamburger, a short beer and
her boy friend a good cigar. Pop
ular magaznes sold for a nickel
and the Sunday paper was a bar
gain at the same figure. Today
a nickel won't even get you a
"thank you" from your beloved
grandchild because she knows it
is practically valueless in her
marls of trade. Today the nickel
is almost pure copper.
When I was attending public
school I was taught by those
"simple minded," but patriotic
teachers, that our government
was the greatest and best form
of government under God's dome.
There were no detractors of
George Washington, Thomas Jef
ferson and Abraham Lincoln.
Our great men were held up as
stalwarts who had given their
lives in the establishment here
in the New World of a Govern
ment of, by, and for the people,
which should not perish from the
earth. They wrote a road map,
the Constitution of the United
States, to guide us away from
the shoals of greed and corrup
tion. But, accoiding to the preach-'
ments of today's betrayers, the
founding fathers laid down a
philosophy of the "horse and
buggy days" which should not
be followed in this day of athe
istic idealism and national dis
honesty. Every phase of life has been
invaded and in many instances
benefited by the discoveries of
science. The drudgery of house
work has been eased by the in
vention of the electric washer,
ironer, mangle and sweeper. My
mother carried water from a well
fifty feet distant from her kit
chen, but now hot and cold wa
rooms of this dal. Central heat
ing plants are a part of the
equipment of modern housing.
Over gas and electric stoves our
womenfolks heat already prepar
ed fruits, vegetables and meals,
as they take them from the re
frigerators at their elbow.
IONE NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Fletcher
are the parents of a son born
March 21 at The Dalles hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey King are the
grandparents.
Mrs. Dale Ray underwent a
Inventive science has worked 'tonsillectomy at The Dalles last
wonders for man in my short week. She and Mr. Ray spent the
span of 66 years. It has delivered
the harvester from the back
breaking cradle and scythe. Mo
tor oierated machines mow the
grass and cut the liay, rake it
into rows, pick it up, bale it and
haul it away to market or to the
barn. The grain growing states
have fleets of combines which
move across the fields from south
to north to garner the golden
grains as they go. Some farms
have become so completely me
chanized that the hoof beat of
the horse is never heard the in
dispensible horse has long been
forgotten. Machines milk the far
mers' cows, dig his postholes,
spray his orchards, plow and cul
tivate his fields and cut his corn.
If my grandparents were to re
turn from their long forgolton
graves they would be as confus
ed as their grandchildren are to
day. Grandfather wouldn't know
what to do with his chest of
hand tools and grandmother
would feel like Alice in Wonder
land in a modern house.
Yes, I have lived in a wonder
ful age. I have seen the passing
of the phaeton, buggy and the
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week end with her children at
Husum and Lyle, Wash., and re
turned home Monday.
The Eastern Star ladies will
ihave a clean up day at their hall
March 30. Their social club will
meet at the home of Mrs. E. M.
Baker, April 6.
Shutler wagon as modes of
transportation. Divorces are as
common as marriages and when
the Grim Reaper cuts you down
your relatives hustle you off to
the firey furnace, not waiting for
the final benediction by St. Peter.
ease and comfort and sleep each J
night in air-conditioned hotels
or tourist camps. My father and
his parents made the trip in cov
ered wagons and as a boy of
twelve, father swam the Snake
river out of Idaho into Oregon,
driving cattle ahead of him.
When I was a boy a nickel
(five cents) was coined of al
most pure nickel. It would buy a
bag of good wholesome stick
candy of ten four-inch sticks, a
ter is piped into the kitchen sink
and throughout the house. The
bathroom is modern as the elec
trie light and no longer do we
take down the wash tubs from
the outside kitchen wall, draw
and heat water on the cook stove
for the Saturday night bath. The
odorous outhouse, cloistered by
honeysuckle or hop vine, no long,
er sits secluded at the distant
corner of the rear service yard,
for in its stead Is the porcelain
soda pop and a half pound of j oowi wnn me poiisnea wooaen
cherries. Three of them would seat so prominent in all bath
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY
JOS. J. NYS
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Peters Bldg., Willow Street
Heppner, Oregon
J. O. PETERSON
Latest Jewelry & Gift Goods
Watches. Clocks, Diamonds
Expert Watch & Jewelry
Repairing
Heppner, Oregon
J. O.TURNER
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Phone 173
Hotel Heppner Building
Heppner, Oregon
Veterans of Foreign
Wars
Meetings 2nd & 4th Mondays
at 8:00 p.m. in Legion Hall
idents of this county, were mar
ried at the home of Mrs. Marlatt
in this city on Saturday evening,
March 22, Frank A. Andrews,
pastor of the Christian church of
Henry Chapel is back from
France, having arrived home on
Sunday evening. He saw some
lively fighting in the last big
drive made by the American!
and came through without a
scratch.
Jos. M. Hayes, Butter creek
flockmaster, has just finished
lambing one of his bands. He se
cured 92 per cent of lambs from
this band which started lambing
about the middle of February,
when the weather wa3 not the
best.
Dr. W. H. Lytle, state veterin
arian, is here today. Dr Lytle was
called to Morrow county to in
vestigate some sickness among
horses and hogs which had ben
reported up to him by different
farmers. It Is feared that swine
are afflicted with cholera.
Dick Wells returned home
Monday evening from the east
ern coast, where he has been sta
tioned for the greater part of his
enlistment as a soldier for Uncle
Sam. He has received his promo
tion to civil life again and is
mighty glad to be home.
W. E. Severance, formerly of
this county but now residing
near Forest Grove, was here dur
ing the week making a visit to
his farm near Hardman. Berore
returning to Forest Grove, Mr.
Severance visited with his daugh
ter, Mrs. Roy Campbell of Lex
ington.
Three hundred and twelve dol
lars was in the big nugget that
was shown In Canyon a few days
ago. It weighed 19 ounces. It was
pure gold with no quartz what
ever. Blue Mountain Eagle, Can
P. W. MAHONEY
ATTORNEY AT LAW
General Insurance
Heppner Hotel Building
Willow Street Entrance
Saw Filing &
Picture Framing
O. M. YEAGEH'S
SERVICE STORE
Jack A. Woodhall
Doctor of Dental Medicine
Dffice First Floor Bank Bldg.
Phone 2312 Heppner
Turner, Van Marter
and Company
GENERAL
INSURANCE
Dr. L. D. Tibbies
OSTEOPATHIC
Physician & Surgeon
First National Bank Building
Res. Ph. 1162 Office Ph. 492
Phelps Funeral
Home
Licensed Funeral Directors
Phone 1332 Heppner, Oregon
A.D.McMurdo, M.D.
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Trained Nurse Assistant
Office In. Masonic Building
Heppner, Oregon
Heppner City
C niinril Meets First Monday
WOUnCII Emu Month
Citizens having matters for
discussion, please bring them
before the Council. Phone 2572
Dr. C. C. Dunham
CHIROPRACTIC PHYSICIAN
Office No. 4 Center St
House Cals Made
Home Phone 2583 Office 2572
Morrow County
Abstract & Title Co.
rwa.
ABSTRACTS OF TITLE
TITLE INSURANCE
Office In Peters Building
C. A. RUGGLES Representing
Blaine E. Isom
Insurance Agency
Phone 723 Heppner, Ore.
Call Settles Electric
at HEPPNER APPLIANCE
for all kinds of electrical work.
New and repair.
Phone 2542 or 1423
Dr. J. D. Palmer
DENTIST
Office upstairs Rooms 11-12
First National Bank Bldg.
Phones: Office 783, Home 932
Heppner, Oregon
RALPH E.CURRIN
ATTORNEY AT LAW
First National Bank Bldg.
Phone 2G32
N. D. BAILEY
Cabinet Shop
Lawn Moweri Sharpened
Sewing Machines Repaired
Phone 1485 for appointment
or call at shop.
Morrow County
fiMirf Meets First Wednesday
VUUIT 0f Eacn Month
Connty Jndfre Office Honrs t
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9 a.m.
to 6 p.m.
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday Fore-
non only
Walter B. Hinkle
REAL ESTATE
Farms, Buslnes, Income Prop
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Income Tax Returns
Arlington, Oregon
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tacked. High square back and double suspenders
distribute weight evenly for working comfort Waist
sizes 30-50.
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Heavy Carpenter
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