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mmtttt epper $3.00 Per Year; Single Copies 10c Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, September 22, 1949 Volume 66, Number 27 Frank W. Collins Called By Death Tuesday Morning Was En route To Hospital When Summons Came Death came unexpectedly to Frank W. Collins, 73, Tuesday morning as he was enroute to a hospital In Pendleton In the Phelps ambulance. He had been 111 only a day or two but his con dition became serious early Tues. day morning and his nephew, W. C. Collins, decided he should be removed to the hospital. The am bulance left at 8 oelock and Mr. Collins expired about the time Lexington was reached. Services will be held in Cottage Grove at 2 p. m. Saturday under auspices of the Masonic lodge, of which he had been a member for many years. Burial will be at Eugene. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Col lins will leave Frday evening to attend the services. Mr. Collins was a native of Kansas, being born at Concordia. At the age of 19 he started in the laundry business, first working as an employe and later engag ing in business for himself. He located in Seattle while a young man and was also in business in Spokane and Tacoma before mov ing to Cottage Grove in 1928 where he was associated in the laundry business with his neph ew, W. C. Collins. He had visited in Heppner several times since his nephew located here, arriving here this time with his wife the week before the Pendleton Round Up. After taking in that show, Mrs. Collins returned home and he stayed here to help in the Heppner Cleaners during the fair-rodeo rush. He was preparing to return home this week when he was stricken. Surviving are his wife, a bro ther, Edward Collins, of James town, Kan., and five nephews and one niece. Frank Glasscock Services Held In Vancouver Monday Funeral services for the late Frank Glascock were held Mon day afternoon In Vancouver, VVn. He died suddenly at his home there on Sept 15. Mr. Glasscock spent much of his life in Mor row county and in the John Day section. He was married to Miss Lucy Ashbangh of Hardman in 1911. About 1G years ago the fa mily moved to La Grande and in 1941 they moved to Vancouver where they have since resided. Surviving arc the widow, two sons, Harold and Marvin, all of Vancouver, two sisters, Mrs. Maud Boyd of Caldwell. Idaho and Mrs. Lena White of Portland and one brother, Maurice Smead of Portland. Time Grows Short For Obtaining "All Risk" Insurance Only eight days remain for eli gible wheat producers to sign up for "all risk" insurance on their 1950 wheat crop warns R. S. Thompson, chairman of the Mor row county ACA committee. He went on to say that every effort will be made to personally con tact all eligible producers before September 30 closing date, but emphasized that this was a big undertaking In the short time remaining and that it would be a big help if all Morrow county wheat farmers not already sign ed up would come Into the coun ty office and take care of this matter. Mr. Thompson pointed out that he was sure the major ity of Morrow county wheat far mers would sign up if they real ly understood the advantages. He explained that the crop insur ance act made it possible for farmers to put proven principles of insurance to work for them in a field of risk for which no other insurance Is available. That is from planting time until the crop Is harvested against all un avoidable hazards that man can not control: such as the elements insects and plant diseases. He added that the Insurance is strictly non-profit, consequently the cost is low and a provision has been set up so that any sur plus of premium paid above the amount necessary to pay losses within the county goes to the credit of the county and when minimum reserve requirements are met the surplus goes back to the participating farmers through a premium adjustment the following year. Mr. Thompson estimated that the minimum reserve require ments would be met in Morrow county within the next three years. This would mean a 30 percent reduction in the premi ums of policyholders who have a contract in effect the year pre ceding this reduction. Shrine Clubs Have First Fall Meeting The Morrow County Shrine club and auxiliary held its first meeting of the fall season Sat urday evening at the Masonic hall with.a record crowd in at tendance. Tor its project this year the Shrine club will equip a room for the Morrow County Me mortal hospital and the auxiliary will make scrapbooks for the Crippled childrens ward at the Shrine hospital in Portland. Fol lowing the business meeting, bridge, pinochle and Chinese checkers were played. High scores In bridge were won by Mr. and Mrs. Blaine E. Isom of Pendleton In pinochle, A. C. Ball received high score and Mrs. W. G. See hafer of lone, second. Refresh ments of home-made apple pie ala mode were served by Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Ball and Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Rosewall. Mr. and Mrs Mar vin Wightman were in charge of the entertainment W. C. Rosewall is president of the Shrine club and Mrs. Rosewall heads the aux iliary. Mr. and Mr. Tilman Ju ett of Kentucky were guests of the clubs for the evening. 4-H Fat Auction Sale, Calf Scramble Highlight Program A little late in being reported but still of general interest to those who were not fortunate enough to be able to attend the 1849 Morrow county fair and ro deo, were two special 4-H events. These were the 411 fat auction sale held at the farigrounds at 7:30 p. m., Friday Sept. 9; and the 4-H calf scramble held as a part of the Saturday rodeo per formance. The 4-H fat auction sale, which the weather threatened to dam pen, was a success in prices ceived for the number of fat ani. mals offered. Preceded by a 4-H pig scramble with pigs donated by Vernon Munkers, Lexington, Loyd Howton, Heppner, Elmer Palmer and Cornett Green of Heppner, eight members scramb led it out with George Herman Lexington, Marvin Wightman, Eddie and John Brosnan, Hepp ner, coming out with a gilt which will be carried as a club project ana exnimted at next years fair. Fat stock sales, with Bob Run nlon as auctioneer, averaged 37.7 cents per pound on beef; 43.1 on fat lambs and 38 cent on pigs. Three purebred Hampshire rams sold to George Currin, Heppner, averaged $17.50 per head. Buy ers of the fat beef were Elks club, buying the grand champion steer shown by Reita Graves; Orville Cutsforth buying the re serve champion shown by Jim Green. Other buyers , were Cot Swanson, lone; Hynd brothers, Heppner; Charles Hodge, Hepp ner, Lee Beckner, 2 calves, lone; Cornett Green, Harold Wright, Jim Farley, Heppner; Freddie Nelson, Lexington; Elmor Pal mer, Heppner; Herbert Ekstrom, lone; Lexington Implement; Mrs. R. A. Thompson, Ralph Beamer, Mankin Bunch, John Graves and Leonard Rill, Heppner. The grand champion fat lamb shown by Ronald Baker, lone, was purchased by O. W. Cuts forth, with reserve champion shown by Joan Wilson, bought by Mrs. R. A. Thompson. Other buyers of fat lambs were Luke Bibby, Harold Erwln, and Harry Munkers, Heppner; Berle Akers of lone; Mrs. Ollllia Hunt, Lex ington. Vernon Munkers, Lexing ton purchased the champion fat hog shown by Janice Beamer, Heppner. In the Saturday afternoon calf scramble performance 12 4-H club members made frantic at tempts to catch one of the six husky calves in the "catch it and you can have it" contest. Judges for the scramble were Raymord Ferguson and Ralph Beamer who broke all bars when two or more members would at tempt to corral the same calf. Club members Malcolm McKin ney, Reita Graves Ronald Baker, Duane Baker, Richard Ekstrom and Herbert Ekstrom were vic tors of the scramble winning calves donated by Mnnkln-Bunch ranch, Heppner; E. M. Baker, lone; Kirk-Rohinson ranch, Hugh Smith, Steve Thompson and Frank Wilkinson, Heppner. These calves will be fattened, groomed and fitted and shown at the 1950 Morrow county fair and rodeo. 4-H Clubbers Make Entries for P. I. E. Eight Morrow county 4-H club members have made entries for Ihc Pacific International Live stock Exposition and will be lravltiR with these exhibits on October 7. Seven fat steers have been entered by Ronald and Duane Baker, Richard Ekstrom, Jean Coleman, Ingrld Hermann, Betty Graves and Jimmy Green. Fat lamhs have been entered by Ronald Baker and Peggy Wight man. Fleeces are being entered in the Pacflc International show by most club members with breeding sheep projects, Local Court Host To Third District County Officials Officials of Morrow county were hosts Saturday to a visit ing delegation of county officials comprising the third district of Oregon and including represen tatives from Hood River, Wasco, Gilliam and Wheeler counties. Sherman county, sixth member of the group, was not represent ed, due to the fact that the coun ty fair was in progress at Moro. The state is divided into six districts in which county offici als, and more particularly the county courts, get together in an nual sessions to talk over mat ters of mutual interest and to prepare recommendatons for any changes In the laws or passage of new laws. Here at the same time were members of the state highway engineering department and a member of the Bureau of Public Roads, B. J. McClarty, division engineer with headquarters at Portland, whose job it is to cover several western states to ascer tain the needs of communities calling for assistance from the Bureau of Public Roads; John Cattrall, acting engineer for county and city relations, state highway department, and Fred Hagemann, his assistant, were guests of the court. The highway visitors were ta ken on a tour of county and state roads, the trip covering ap proximately 200 miles. They were greatly impressed with the sur facing accomplished with decay ed granite on the upper Willow creek road. Judge Garnet Barr att reports that the tour includ ed a visit to the granite deposits on Shaw creek and it was recom mended that the county use the surfacing material on roads with in 40 miles of the deposits, that being about the limit to the dis tance at which it could be profi tably hauled. I SHARP LINES DRAWN The branding iron of the 1950 political campaign already fret, ting politicos will be the CVA. The Columbia Valley adminis. tration proposition is expected to draw the support of Truman de mocrats a majority of the mem bers of labor organizations, of the Grange, the Farmers Union and all advocates of public ow nership of public serving utilities. Opponents of the CVA will in clude Taft republicans, those who advocate private ownership of public serving utilities, and, of course, all owners of stock in privately owned public serving utilities, the Farm Bureau, most financial institutions and cham bers of commerce. Governor Douglas McKay, who one time favored public owner ship of electric power plants and distribution systems, is carrying the banner for those opposing federal development of Columbia valley waters by what promises to be a prototype of the Tennes see Valley Authority. Governor McKay's position is very similar to that of the late president William Howard Taft, remembered as the strongest ad vocate of slates rights of any president of this century, who also, when Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1921, heartened the states with his decisions upholding states rights and limiting encroach ments of federal departments. Look for CVA appungers call ing themselves " States Righters" 'fore long. And look for name calling at wholesale, free delivery rates, in the bitterest campaign since the days of Sylvester Pennoyer, Har ry Lane or Os West. NOTED CONSERVATIONIST DIES Nelson R Rogers, state forester and author, died at a Salem hospital Sunday night. He was 58. Ills life was devoted to forest conservation and, since 1940 when he was first appointed state forester, he efficiently re duced forest fire losses and planned reforestation methods now in operation. Before his last appointment he had served as deputy stale forester, evaluation engineer for the state tax com mission and in various capaci ties in forest protection. When he was first stricken with his last illness, he designat ed Gorge Spaur, assistant state forester to act as state forester, Last year, Rogers was elected vice president of the National Association of State Foresters and was scheduled to be presi dent this ear, Briefs of Community .. R. S. McMurtry has returned from the valley and will make his home in Heppner for the win ter with his son, R. G. McMurtry and family. Plans are being made by the Degree of Honor lodge to attend the fiftieth anniversary of the organization in that city on Oc tober 3. The local order has been invited to participate In the cere monies and will present thenit iatory work. Some 15 or 20 mem bers are planning to make the trip. The program also includes a luncheon and banquet and In the evenng the regular meeting. Several state officers of the De gree are expected to be in atten dance. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Pierson mo tored to Pendleton and Hermis ton Friday. They were accompan ied by his mother. Mrs. Anna Pierson of White Salmon, Wash, who has been visiting here for the past fortnight. Mrs. Pierson remained in Hermiston for a vis it with another son, Frank. M. L. Case entertained the Me. thodist church school children and the children of his tenants with a lawn party at his resi dence on West Center street Sat urday afternoon. Assisting with the entertainment were Mrs. Case, Rev. and Mrs. J. Palmer Sorlien, Mrs. Alex Green and Mrs. Fay Bucknum. Eldon Gentry returned the last of the week from the Wallowa mountain region where he has been herding sheep for John Vol le of Hermiston. Mr and Mrs. Orrin W. Furlong left Monday for their home in Portland after visiting here for a month with his father, William Furlong. Guests at the Elbert Cox home over the week-end were Mrs. Cox's daughter, Mrs. Marie Camp- bell of Richland, Wash, and Mrs. Rosemary Bevis and son David of Pasco. Mrs. Lennie Louden and Mrs. Sophrona Thompson have been vacationing in Canada and are , expected home sometime ' this week. 1 ies at a university there. Horse Fans Elated Over Renewal Of Exhibition at Fair . . . Of great interest to horse lov-1 ers, of which there seems to be many from the audience present, was the saddle horse division of the 1949 Mortow County Fair and Rodeo. Crowded out last year this division came back strong from the 1947 fair with 57 entries made with Fred Mankin, superinten dent. Judging the 20 classes of all ages, breeds and types of saddle horses was Tom Dorrance, En terprise, former range and pure bred cattleman, who is now live stock specialist with the First National Bank of Portland. First class winners in the va rious classes are listed below: Arabian colt, Merlyn Robinson, Heppner. Quarterhorse colts, Floyd Jones, Heppner. Welsh colts, Mrs. Martin Bauern fiend, Morgan. Other colts, Mrs. Beulah Man kin, Heppner. Thorobred yearling.s Cornet Green, Heppner. Arabian stallion, Merlyn Rob inson, Heppner. Random Thoughts This colyum should be called "rmbling thots" this week, what with the writer and his helpmeet out running around the country for all of four days. That's a short space of time but we managed to cover upwards of 1,000 miles, mostly over country with which we were not familiar, although we have lived in proximity to it for many years. It might be call ed a tour of interior college towns of Idaho and Washington. Hav ing Ived in Walla Walla, we are familiar with Whitman college through close contact, but neither of us had been to Lewiston, Mos cow or Pullman, so, leaving Wal la Walla Friday morning we headed for Lewiston. passing over familiar terrain until we reached the turn-off to Pomeroy From then on it was new country ev ery foot of the way until we re turned to the Walla Walla-Spokane highway at Colfax. Lewiston Is a busy center, es pecially at the noon hour We made no stop there due to the lack of parking space at the time and winlh Spokane as the desti nation for the night there was not tmle to look around. The view is more all-embracing from the Lewiston grade and this was greatly enjoyed. Leaving the Snake river valley behind we pressed on towards Moscow where the university campus was given a hasty once over. Then on to Pullman where a similar glimpse was taken of the Wash ington State college, then we were on our way to Spokane via Colfax. Spokane was crowded due to various events a horse race meet, opening of the football sea son, convention of weekly news paper folk, a flower show and we know not what else. No hotel rlRht, but some Washingtonians accommodations had to take'are pondering over the better an auto camp for the night. j Ulnn $800,000,000 expense bill re Saturday morning we took off qured to operate the state. S2c Jerry Waters and S2c Don Munkers of the U. S. Coast Guard arrived in Heppner Monday for a 10-day furlough. They have Just completed the first phase of their training at Cape May New Jer sey, and after their leave here will report in Seattle, September 30, for further orders. They ex pect to be stationed on the west coast. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Dix re turned home Friday from a va cation in Portland and the Ore gon coast. They were accompan ied by Misses Anne McNamee of Seattle and Miss Mary Lou White of Portland who spent the week end here with relatives and friends. They departed Monday for Portland and from there will continue on to San Francisco for a week's stay. While in Portland Mr. and Mrs. Dix enjoyed an eve ning in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. James who formerly resided here when Mr. James was superintendent of schools and Mrs. James taught the eighth grade. Mr. and Mrs. LaVerne Van Ma,rter Jr. and Mr. and Van Hubbard of lone returned Sunday evening from a brief vacation spent in Reno, Nevada and way points. Miss Betty Dietz of Pantland arrived in Heppner Monday after noon for a visit with relatives and friends. She was met in Ar lington by Mr. and Mrs. La Verne Van Marter. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ayers re turned the last of the week from a business trip to Portland, From The Dalles they were ac- i companied to the city by Mrs. Burl Coxen Mr. and Mrs. Ray McDade (Kathryn Nys) and daughter, Kathleen of Walla Walla spent 'Monday in Heppner visiting with i her father, Jos. J. Nys and Mrs. Nys. ! Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Parrish ! and son, Richard, departed the last of the week for Los Angeles where he will continue his stud- Quarterhorse stallion, Archie Ivurcheson, Heppner. inorobred stallion, Ray Dol ven. Lexington. Quarterhorse gelding, Betty Smethurst, Lexington. Mare under halter, Mrs. Mary Beckner, lone. Quarterhorse brood mare and foal, Floyd Jones, Heppner. Welsh brood mare and foal Mrs. Martin Bauernfiend, Mor gan. Other brood mare and foal Sandra Lanham, Heppner. Stockhorse and rider, Archie Murcheson, Heppner. Three-gaited, Mrs. Mary Beck ner, lone. Five-gaited, Mrs. Mary Beck ner, lone. Ponies with riders to 16 years Old, Neil Beamer. HeDDner. Seven riders entered the Shet land pony class with youthful riders up to 12 years of age. Frist place went to Linda Halvorsen. lone, second to Jimmie Steagall, Lexington and third to Barbara Steagall, Lexington. for Grand Coulee via Davenport, Creston, Wulbur. Well, if you haven't seen ths greatest man made structure take time out some time and see t. An hour or so spent there it was crowded too and we headed down the grand coulee in the direction of Wenatehee. That section is a bee hive of activity getting the fruit crops taken care of. By entering the project from the Columbia river side, down Pine creek can yon, and leaving via the Blewett Pass route we traversed a big part of the orchard district. Also passed directly by the warehouse hum at Cashmere where a 1200 foot long building containing 200.000 boxes of apples and pears burned Saturday morning. It re minded us of Heppner on July IS. After leaving the Blewett Pass route we were in familiar terri tory, the Kittitas valley, with El lensburg and its fne state col lege of education; then Yakima valley, back to the Columbia ri ver and to The Dalles, then on home Monday afternoon Some impressons were gained on the brief trip that may cause us to break out with a bit of comment here and there later on. One thing that hit us forcibly is that there are no federal funds for Oregon because all of them not spent in California are being poured into projects of one kind and another in Washington. Dams, military establishments'. Be that as it may, the question arises if Oregon is not just about as well off. Each new project set up in Washington calls for added tax burdens on the people In building roads, schools, and providing more employees In of- ficail positions. It may be all Large Attendance Marks Institute On E. 0:C. E. Campus Morrow county educators who attended the annual institute re turned from La Grande Tuesday evening highly gratified with re. suits attained at the meeting, ac cording to Henry Tetz, county school superintendent "It was one of the finest meetings I ever attended," Tetz told a newspaper representative. In the first place there was an attendance of 1200 teachers, pro bably establishing a record for this region. In the second place, there was an outstanding pro gram, and in the third place Mrs. Marie Clary of Heppner, president of the conference, did an excellent job in conducting the meetings, Tetz reports. Mrs. Beulah Ogletree, Heppner, is sec retary of the conference. Following a general session at 9 a. m. Monday the assemblage got down to work in the section al meetings in which the elemen tary and high school branches were taken up by their respec tive groups. In the elementary section there were discussions on physical education and health, special education, art, music, ele mentary school science. In the high school division it was agri culture, art, business education, foreign languages' boys' health and physical education, girls' health and physical education, home economics, industrial arts, language arts (composition), lan. guage arts (literature), language arts speech and drama), library, mathematics, music, science, so- sial science (both junior and se nior high) and guidance. Tuesday's workshop started with a general session in which a featured address, "My Country and My People", by Mrs. Inuk Pakh, international lecturer from Korea, drew a marginal notation by Mr. Tetz as "keen analysis, clear and concise interpretation, very good." The groups then took up the sectional meetings. The annual banquet was held at 6:30 Monday evening at Hot Lake. Mr. Tetz was toastmaster and speakers were Bruce Mac Gaffey, classified advertising manager of the La Grande Eve ning Observer, and John M. Booth, executive secretary, Ida ho educational association, "Tea chers and the Buyers Market." Mrs. Gladys Ely of lone was chairman of the committee on nominations. Jaycee Groups Plan Home Talent Show Plans for a home talent show to be presented in November were formulated at a meeting of the Junior chamber of commerce and the Jay-C-ettes Wednesday even ing in the civic center. More defi nite announcement will be made at an early date. At the sam emeeting the Jay- C-ettes announced they were sponsoring a baby derby for the first baby born in the Morrow County Memorial hospital. The meeting last night was the joint monthly dinner, followed by brief business sessions of the sep arate clubs. Forty-eight plates were served by the hostesses, Mrs. J. E. Estberg, Mrs. L. L. Pate and Mrs. Charles Ruggles. A pleasing feature of the eye- nings entertainment was the showing of moving pictures by Charles Ruggles, selected from his library of home and travel films. SPEAKER LISTED FOR C OF C MEETING Stanley R. Church of Portland, representing Pacific Northwest Development association, will be guest speaker at the chamber of commerce luncheon Monday, September 26. Mr. Church will have a wealth of information on development progress in the northwest area LEGION AUXILIARY OPENS SEASON'S ACTIVITIES AT TUESDAY'S MEETING The American Legion auxili ary held its first meeting of the new year Tuesday evening in the Legion hall, with Mrs. Otto Stein ke in charge. Plans were made for a public card party to be held in the hall on the evening of September 30. A membership drive will start immediately under the leader ship of Mrs. Wlliam Padberg, chairman. MOVING TO RANCH Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Benge, tir ing of the hum drum existence of town life, have decided to move back to the ranch in the Social Ridge district. They have rented their town property on north Main street and plan to take up residence at the ranch about October 1. Terrel Benge will continue to operate the ranch and his parents hope to make themselves useful in doing chores. Installation Of Officers Rainbow Function Monday Installation o fofficers was the principal item of business for the Heppner Assembly of Rainbow Girls at the Masonic hall Monday evening. Mrs. Donld DuBois, past worthy advisor, acted as worthy Installing advisor and was assist ed by Cnstance Ruggles as wor thy installing marshall; Mrs. W. O. Seehafer as installing recrder; Mrs. E. O. Ferguson as installing chaplain, and Mrs. C. C. Carmich ael as installing musician. The following officers were In stalled: Worthy advisor, Marlene DuBois; worthy associate, Lorene Mitchell; Charity, Patricia Drake; Hope, June Van Winkle; Faith, Eunice Kelthley; recorder, Con stance Ruggles; treasurer, Jane Seehafer; chaplain, Nancy Fer guson; drill leader, Delores Kei thley; Lve, Marily Bergstrom; Religion, Joan Bothwell; Immor tality, Betty Wells; Fidelity, Sharleen Rill; Patriotism, Shar- ron Becket; Service, Dorothy Low- ry; confidential observer, Mere dith Ann Sorlien; outside observ er, Nancy Eberhardt; musician, Eleanor Rice; choir director, Rei ta Graves; mother advisor, Mrs. Harley Anderson. Choir: Wanda Hodge, Donna Hudson, Kathleen Orwick, Beth Ball, Betty Lou Messenger, Shir ley Hunt, Beverly Nolan, Mary Ann Jensen, Gae Orwick, Wanda Matteson, Kay CrowelL Ellse Bauernfeind and Lela Btts. Light refreshments were served following the installation cere monies. o PLAN TO MOVE Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Benge have rented their propert in Heppner to Mr. and Mrs. George Morgan. The Benges will move into their ranch home on Social Rirge the first of November. They expect to do no farming as yieir son Terrel has the wheatland rented. o Speaker Stresses Community Oneness J. J. O'Connor, genial manager of Heppner's J. C. Penney Com pany, was a guest at the lunch eon of the Soroptimist club of Heppner this noon. Mr. O'Connor gave a thought-provoking talk on the assets and the needs of our community. He reviewed the many favorable aspects and, re counting the diversity of weath er and climate in the county, of our resources and wealth, our school system cultural opportuni ties, the youth work, play facil ities, city water setup. In turn he stressed the crying need for more housing, for a sewer sys tem, for another school building, more room for the county fair operations, and above all, the necessity of all service groups working together to bring about these essential needs for better living in our community. Twenty members were present and a birthday cake honoring the Septemberites was enjoyed. Next meeting, Sept. 2, wll b "sack lunch" day, held at the home of the president, Mrs. W. O. George. Mrs. O. G. Crawford will present the program honor ing the founders of Soroptimism Founders' week is being observ ed from Sept. 28 to Oct 5. This is the 28th anniversary for this ser vice club for business women which has grown to international scope and membership. School Bus Stop Law Applies To City Thorofares Motorists must stop for school buses that have stopped to pick up or unload children within the city limits as well as in rural areas, Chief of Police C. R. Go million reminded today. Chief Gomillion said many drivers were probably unaware of the fact that the new school bus stopping law also applies to city streets. The law, enacted by the state legislature last spring as a safeguard for bus-riding school children, requires motor ists to stop when coming up be hind or passing from the oppo site direction a school bus that is loading or unloading passen gers. "This means traffic from both directions must stop," Gomillion pointed out. "Cars must remain stopped as long as children are leaving the bus or crossing the roadway." The only exception is traffic moving in the opposite direction on the other side of a three or four lane roadway, which may pass with caution. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Anderson are spending some time in Portland where Mrs. Anderson Is receiving medical attention. The Hynd household, including Miss Annie Hynd, Miss Nellie Doney and William and David Hynd, are sojourning in Portland for a week. Mothers of children attending the kindergarten were guests of the Jay-C-ette kindergarten com mittee at a tea given In the civic center parlor Monday afternoon. Sixteen mothers availed them, selves of the opportunity to visit the school while Mrs. Al Huit and Mrs. Carl Daniel took care of their children. Cake, tea and coffee were served. Crash On Highway Puts Three Young People in Hospital "Buddy" Peck and Stanley Cox Suffer Critical Injuries Two cars were badly wrecked and three young people are hos pitalized following a crash on the highway at the site of the Heppner Lumber company plant two miles north of Heppner Just after 1 a. m. Sunday. Injured are George N "Buddy" Peck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Peck of Lex ington; Stanley Cox, son of Percy Cox .Heppner, and Leola Nich ols, daughter of Mrs. Zella Du- fault, formerly of Heppner and now of Portland. Carroll Vernon Freeman, driv er of one of the cars, a pickup, was shaken up but apparently suffered no serious injuries. The other three members of the crash are in St. Anthony's hospital at Pendleton where the two boys, Peck and Cox, were reported late Wednesday to have a fair chance for recovery, and Mrs. Nichols had developed no serious compli cations. Freeman, Mrs. Nichols and Cox were returning to Heppner from Lexington and Peck, driving a Chevrolet coupe, was on his way home to near Lexington. Because all participants in the wreck were so shaken and confused they could not make a coherent report, the officers have recon structed details of the accident from the position in which they found the cars, the marks on the highway and from pictures taken before the cars were removed. A logging truck parked along side the highway in the vicinity of the lumber company's machine shop may have had the appear ance to the driver of the south bound car of being on the high way due to a slight curve in the road as it passes the former milk plant at the Wightman place. Freeman, driver of the pickup, apparently skirted around the truck which threw his car over the stripe and into the traffic lane traversed by the oncoming car from the south. The condition of both cars leads the officers to believe that the drivers were in somewhat of a hurry. The cars met on Peck's side of the road, striking on their right sides. Peck's car was upset and the body was jammed in such a manner that it was necessary to remove him through the trunk door. Cox and Mrs Nichols were hanging out of the door of the pickup when Officer William Labhart arrived on the scene. A physician was called and injured were made ready for the trip to the hospital. The Phelps ambulance took Mrs. Nichols and Officer Labhart took Peck in his car after the injured lad had been made secure on a stretcher. Cox's injuries had to be taken care of here before he could be removed to the hospital. His cou sin, Calvin Cox, and his father left for Pendleton with him about daylight. Sheriff Bauman called Louis Lyons to the scene to get some pictures and the obliging photo grapher got four shots which co ver the story quite graphically. SELLS PROPERTY A deal was consummated Tues day evening for the purchase of the W. L. McCaleb property on Chase street by William and Al vie Mahon. The Mahons have been working at the Big Four Lumber company plant at Mon ument but recently came to Hep pner to work for the Heppner Lumber company and plan to make their home here. Mr. Mc Caleb purchased the Terrel Benge residence on Gale street a few weeks ago and he and Mrs. McCaleb are now comfortably lo cated there. 8TH GRADERS ORGANIZE Eighth graders of the Heppner school are prepared for whatever extra-curricular activities that may come along, having organiz ed this week for the year's work. Larry Lovgren was elected presi dent and will be assisted by the following officers: Vice president, Ronald Currin; secretary, Pat Cutsforth; treasurer, Bob Busch ke, and reporter, Virginia All- stott. GO TO SUN VALLEY Dr. and Mrs. A. D. McMurdo left this morning fur Sun Valley, Idaho, where the doctor goes to attend a meeting of the Pacific Association of Railway Surgeons to be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This is the 42nd annual convention of the association. Mrs. McMurdo will probably take advanta," of this opportunity to catch up on her skiing, skating, swimming, sunbathing and what not offered at this celetj ated resort.