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0, rMSToaicAL society yftmetf alette epper $3.00 Per Year; Single Copies 10c Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, May 4, 1950 Volume 67, Number 7 Basin Farmers To Attend Field Day AtMikkato 11th V. Larson Ranch To Be Scene of All-clay Program The Oregon Wheat Growers League 1949 "Conservation Man of the Year," 37 -year-old Virgil Larson, Mlkkalo, will have his farm on display to the public on Thursday, May 11, starting at 10:00 a.m., a Columbia Basin conservation field day committee has announced. The all-day program is intend ed to show conservation crop ping practices and soil-saving tillage methods. Located 24 miles northwest of Condon, Larson's 4,407 acre ranch lies in an area which receives 9 to 12 Inches of annual rainfall. The area is sub ject to severe wind and water erosion. Among field day features will be a field where 50-bushel wheat was farmed with trashy fallow in 1949 and seeded with a deep furrow drill this year. It will show, the field day committee states, that even excessive amounts of stubble can be handled in a low rainfall area. Program speakers will include Floyd Root, Wasco, second vice president, Oregon Wheat Grow ers League; Tom Helseth, Pendle ton, district conservationist, SCS; Sam Cook, Pendleton, farmer fieldman, PMA; and Arthur S. King, OSC extension service soil conservation specialist. Larson's equipment will be dis played, and cropping practices to be viewed will include strip cropping, trashy fallow, contour seeded fields, steep land slopes seeded to grass, and nitrogen fertilizer plots and crested wheat grass and wheat. A field of new creeping alfalfa seeded this year will be shown. Signs will be erected on the Arlington-Condon highway as well as on the Condon -Moro road pointing out the route to the Larson ranch. Although the com mittee is requesting visitors to bring lunches, box lunches will be available and coffee will be served. Morrow county farmers will be interested In this field day and are invited to attend, says N. C. Anderson, county agent. o DRESS SHOP MOVES The stock and furnishings of the Anderson & Wilson women's apparel shop were moved over the week-end from the former location in the Wells building to the Farra building on North Main street. GRANGE CHOOSES PRINCESS At a recent meeting of Rhea Creek grange, Miss Kathryn Campbell, student of Heppner high school, was chosen to repre sent the grange as princess of the royal court of the Morrow County Fair and Rodeo. Junior Band Makes This picture was taken by Louis Lyons of the Heppner Photo Studio following the annual band concert the evening of April 19. It was meant for publication last week but went astray In the mall and did not reach Heppner until Wednesday evening of this wek, Under the direction and coach ing of Robert Collins, school mu NEW PRESSMAN ON JOB Mr. and Mrs. Rand Hermann arrived in Heppner Sunday from Camas, Washington. Mr. Rand is the new printer-pressman suc ceeding Tommy Allen. The Her manns have taken an apartment at the James Hager residence and have settled down to become permanent residents of Heppner. Mr. Hermann got into the news a couple of weeks ago when the Oregonian published his picture showing him pointing to the fly ing saucer he caught with his camera on the Oregon coast. However, he says he trying to live down that event in his life and all he desires is peace and quiet. Heppner Batters Account for Win From lone Sunday Heppner batters found the of ferings of the lone pitchers to their liking Sunday afternoon at the Rodeo grounds with the re sult that lone took home the short end of an 11 to 8 score. It was Morrow county day in the Wheat-Timber league and Heppner took advantage of the occasion to get into the win column, having previously lost to Arlington, 5-2, while lone was taking an opener from Kinzua, 7-6. Manners and Saunders were the stickers who proved embar rassing to Messrs. J. Pettyjohn and P. Pettyjohn, each garnering four hits from the lone mounds men. Saunders felt he had to re deem his reputation after per mitting several lone runners to cross the home plate on an error. Groves, backstop for lone, led his teammates at bat. Batteries were Drake and Whit- beck for Heppner, and the afore mentioned Pettyjohns and Groves for lone. Heppner will cross bats with Condon there this Sunday while lone plays host to Fossil. District Number 1 Voters Fovor Move For Consolidation Voter of District Number 1 favored consolidation with sever, al other districts bv a margin of 48 votes in Tuesday afternoon's election. The total vote was 62 in favor of and 14 against. Talk ed of opposition failed to de velop any strength and the vote was considered as a favorable expression for the construction of a new grade building. Due to the fact that the offi cial count has not been made nd the Gazette Times could not contact any of the school board chairmen prior to going to press. Final results will be given next week. o Mr. and Mrs. Billy Bucknum nri son Patrick (Rick) drove in Sunday fro mLos Angeles to visit his mother, Mrs. Fay Bucknum, and other relatives. They will return south tomorrow. Its Initial Bow To The sic supervisor, the juniors have made rapid progress and played their full share of the evening's program. Following is the personnel of the band: Clarinets Larry Lindsay, Jay Sumner, Ida Sue Stratton, Jay McClintock, Delores Easter, Jim McCllntock, Marsha Miller, Stephen Green, Judy Collins, Homemakers Spend Profitable Day at Annual Festival With Boardman Women Hostessing Approximately two hundred women gathered in Boardman Wednesday for the annual Mor row County Homemakers' Festi val for which the Boardman unit of the Home Extension Service was host. An Interesting and va ried program was arranged by the extension committee. Regl- stration began at 10:00 o'clock followed by a community sing. Ladies from Boardman, Lexing ton, Irrigon and lone modeled dresses which they had made in the homemakers' workshops. Mrs. Mabel Flint, home demon stration agent, explained that the dress workshops were start ed two years ago with about 100 members and that by the end of the first year, ninety six members had completed cot ton dresses. This year, members had advanced to woolen and ray on materials for better type dresses such as were shown at the festival. One of the most interesting features on the program was "I Saw This In Germany," an ad dress by Mrs. James Brand, Sa lem, whose husband is Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. Mrs. Brand accompanied her hus. band to Nuernberg where they spent a year during which time he served as a judge of war crimes trials. Mrs. Brand men tioned that the men who were on trial were the leaders of pre war Germany and that the court house in which they were hold ing the trials was the same building in which these men had signed the death warrants for thousands of persons in their crimes against humanity. Auto Parts Store Opens Formally Saturday Morning While patrons began visiting the store as soon as stock was placed on the shelves, the formal opening of the Heppner Auto Parts store took place Saturday. Throughout the day visitors were treated to coffee and cookies and were shown through the well set up little shop. Hunting for parts will not be one of the features of Heppner Auto Parts. The stock is so ar ranged that it will require no searching here and there. Like a well-stocked food store, every thing is out in plain sight and within easy reach. Proprietor R. G. McMurtry has put into prac tice the ideas gained from years of working as parts man in ga rages and is well equipped to serve not only the local garages but those of a wide surrounding territory. Tom Wells is associated with McMurtry as representative lo cally and on the road. ATTENTION, ALL ODDFELLOWS Please assemble at the Oddfel lows hall in Heppner at 10:30 a.m., Sunday, May 7, for the group church service. Public In Annual Concert -,. if Melvin Olson, Paul Stout. Saxophone Nancy Davis, Frances Slocum, Barbara War ren, Peggy Wightman. Cornets Paul Becket,' Sandra Whlllock,' Jack Monagle, Fred Lynch, LenRay Schwarz, Alice Peterson. French Horn Dixie McCallistcr, Judy Barger, Christine Swag gart, Pat McDonald. Mrs. Brand told of their life in Germany where they had a cook, second maid, gardener, chauffeur and fireman. Wages were very cheap, the cook re ceiving $15.00 per month, but there was a catch food had to be furnished each servant and after years of short rations, their appetites were ravenous. The American food commissary al lowed $45.00 per month for food for each adult in the household and when that was used, it was necessary to wait until the next month. Food was plentiful but not in great variety, canned and frozen foods which could be shipped from this country were used. Mrs. Brand said there was al ways a great deal to do in the way of sight seeing and that within a radius of 50 miles there were castles, churches, relics of the Gaelic wars and reminders of Caesar's invasion. With gaso line costing only 13c per gallon and a driver for her car, Mrs. Brand was able to travel ex tensively during her stay in Ger many. She found that the people still believe to some extent in the things that Hitler taught, having lost the ability to think for themselves under their years of the one-party system. The greatest mental hazard they had to hurdle was the fact that they are not of a superior race and class. In Paris, Mrs. Brand attended a style show by Schiaperelli which was also attended by the Duchess of Windsor, whom Mrs. Brand found to be most interest President Due In Pendleton at 6:30 P.M. Wednesday Pendleton will be host to the President of the United States Wednesday evening, May 10. President Truman will be on his way to dedicate Grand Coulee dam and will deliver his only major address in the state of Oregon at Pendleton. Time for the address is is scheduled at 61)5 p.m., Pacific Standard time. i Arrangements are being made to provide space for a crowd esti. mated at 15,000 people who will i be able to hear'the President de liver his address from the lawn of the Union Pacific Railroad depot. Pendleton, according to Oren G. Allison, executive secretary of the Pendleton chamber of com merce, is extending an invitation to the people of Umatilla, Mor row, Grant and Gilliam counties to visit that city that day and hear the president's address. It is hoped that many school chil dren will be in attendance from these counties as it will be a Continued ot fa our l-s Alto Horn Dee Bailey, Jack Sherman. Trombone Arthur Mahan, Da vid Reeves, Gail McCllntock. Baritone JoAnn Brosnan, Dean Connor. Bass Forrest Burkenhine, Bob Grabill, Edward Brosnan. Drums Susan Mishler, Pat Wrighf, Charles Bailey, Marvin Wightman, Roberta Hannon, 8 1 lTJTr"& ... I ing, charming and natural per son. Just before luncheon which was served by the ladies of the Boardman unit, a square dance demonstration was given by the Boardman recreational leaders, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Skoubo, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Garner and Mr. and Mrs. Art Allen. Following the luncheon, ex hibits of footstools and sewing projects were examined. The Boardman school presented sev eral musical numbers after which Mrs. Azalea Sager, Corvallis, State Home Economics leader gave a talk on "Our Neighbors South of the Border" and showed colored slides of their five-week trip through Mexico. Members of the county court, Judge Barratt and Commissioners Ralph I. Thompson and Russell Miller, were special guests of the day. Others from Heppner attending the meeting were Mrs. Clive Hus ton, Mrs. F. E. Parker, Mrs. Mary Wright, Mrs. Ray Drake, Mrs. Douglas Drake, Mrs. Elma Hlatt, Mrs. Anna Smouse, Mrs. Ted Pierson, Mrs. Jesse C. Payne, Mrs. Katie Curran, Mrs. Garnett Bar ratt, Mrs. R. I, Thompson, Mrs. Eugene FeTguson, Mrs. Armendus LaDouceur, Mrs. Pearl Devine, Mrs. Kenneth Keeling, Mrs. W. H. I. Padberg, Mrs. Basil Burnstad, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Anderson, Mrs. Earl Evans, Mrs. Ben An derson and Mrs. Mabel Flint. Representatives of Umatilla and Gilliam counties were also pres ent as well as large delegations from Butter creek, Rhea creek, Lexington and lone. Services Held At All Saints Church For Mrs. Valentine Services for Mrs. Ruth Kathryn Valentine were held at 10 o'clock a.m. Tuesday at the All Saints Episcopal church. Rev. Elvon L. Tull, vicar, read the prayer ser vice and Mrs. Lucy Peterson was soloist. Arrangements were in charge of the Phelps Funeral Home. Commitment was in the Heppner Masonic cemetery. Mrs. Valentine passed away about 8 o'clock Saturday morn ing at the St. Anthony's hospital in Pendleton, to which place she was taken Friday afternoon when it was found she was in a serious condition. She had been quite active up to a few days before her death. Ruth Kathryn Turner was born in Heppner November 14, 1913, to W. H. and Kate Boblit Turner, and passed away April 29, 1950. Except for the first six years, her entire life was spent in this community, the most of this on the farm in the Sand Hollow district. After finishing school here she attended Oregon State college. On September 11, 1935 she was married to James Valentine and to this union were born two chil dren, Kay Marie, age 13 years and Karen Reid, at 10 years. She leaves to mourn her loss the two daughters, Kay and Ka ren, Edna L. Turner, her step mother, many other relatives and a host of friends. She was a member of All Saints Episcopal church in Heppner. Among those attending the ser vices from out of town were Mrs. Mary Valentine of Portland; Mrs. Carl Greif, Moscow, Idaho; Mrs. Fred Allen, Walla Walla; Mrs. Maxine Rolfeness, Portland; Mrs. Letha Gorham, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gorham, Walla Walla; Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Warner, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Turner, Portland; Mr. and Mrs. William Kilkenny, Mrs. Zara Cohn, and Kathryn Rice of Pendleton and many others whose names were not learned. o BANQUET POSTPONED The mother-daughter banquet scheduled for the women of lone for May 6 has been postponed, we are informed by our lone correspondent. Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Burkenhine and children and Albert Burken hine left Sunday for Palto, Kan. to visit Mrs. Burkebine's family. This is Albert's first trip to the region east of the Rockies and he had to work like a Trojan to got his school work done aheod in order to get excused. Mrs. Charles Valentine came from her home in Portland to attend the funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Valentine Tuesday morning. SOROPTIMIST CLUB HOLDS ELECTION OF OFFICERS Officers for the ensuing year which begins July 1, were elected at the business meeting of the Soroptimist club of Heppner this noon. Mrs. Frances Mitchell will serve the group as president. Her assistants include Mrs. Grace Nickerson, vice president; Mrs. John Saager, treasurer; Mrs. Clara Gertson, recording secre tary; Mrs. C. A. Ruggles, corre sponding secretary; Mrs. O. G. Crawford, member of board of directors for 3 years, and Mrs. W. O. George, junior regional representative; delegate to gen eral convention of the American Federation of Soroptimist Clubs, scheduled for Seattle in July are Mrs. Mitchell and Mrs. Crawford. Installation of new officers will be held the latter part of June. Construction Of Big Fair Pavilion Moving Rapidly Things are doing at the site of the Morrow County Fair and Rodeo these days. With the new wing for the stock barn already up to the roof, work started in earnest Monday morning on the big exhibition hall and dance pavilion and if the weather is not too adverse, the walls of the 60x180 foot structure will be laid by the end of the week. As a matter of fact they were sche duled to be up by this evening but there has been quite a lot of rain during the week and this has slowed down the workmen to some extent. The preliminary work was done by Ed Thorpe and as soon as the foundation was ready, a crew of workmen from Walla Walla moved in and started lay ing the big lava tile blocks. They laid almost four feet of the wall Monday and were scheduled to complete their part of the job by this, Thursday, evening. Unless funds spring up from somewhere by the time the roof is on, the building will go un floored this year. It will require approximately $2500 to floor the dance pavilion with concrete, but no such amouYit will remain in the fair board's treasury by the time the walls and roof are com pleted. Since the other end of the building will be used for livestock exhibitions no floor will be put in. o Public Recreation Plans Presented To Forum Monday Public recreation as pertains to Heppner and the county was the topic for discussion at the cham ber of commerce luncheon Mon day noon. Since Glenn Parsons, chairman of the recreation com mittee and first vice president of the chamber of commerce, had to preside in the absence of Pres ident Henry Tetz, he called upon Dr. L. D. Tibbies to report the findings of the committee at a recent meeting. Parsons had prepared a chart of the committee's report and also brought along a map of the Heppner ranger district which showed the location of various recreation spots as chosen and set aside for development under the recreation program of the forest service. The committee also included development of the Heppner city park, continued improvement of the swimming tank facilities, and further development of the courthouse park. Development of any small tracts not suitoble for building purposes or otherwise unusable into parks was also mentioned. It being the opening day of the fishing season there were some tall tales being spun about the tables, but it developed that Paul McCoy was the "champ" fisherman of the day. He came in with a 16-inch trout. Doc Tibbies got the limit, and several others made fair catches, accord ing to the bits of conversation that could be gleaned now and then. Mrs. Ethel Cooley of Browns ville was a visitor in Heppner over the week end. She had been visiting at Yakima and Pendle ton. Mrs. J. O. Turner drove to Pendleton Saturday and brought her to Heppner to be present at the recital of Miss Marylou Fer guson's piano class Sunday after noon. Mrs. Cooley Is an aunt of Mrs. Turner, Mrs. R. B. Ferguson and Mrs. Leonard Schwarz. Council Still In Doubt About Sewer Financing Method Federal Aid For Engineering Seen As Possibility Whether or not to Dut an as. sessment charee on water users for the purpose of raising a sewer system fund is still a burning question with HeDDner's eitv council. Up to the present it is tne only method that appears workable, unless it should de velop that a bond issue would be approved, but the councilmen can't bring themselves to take the step. R. J. Stephens, city superin tendent, checked up on the water users within the citv and m there are 475. It would require an assessment of three dollars per month Der user tn hniM nr. a sizeable fund within of a few years, and while it is realized that a good many people would accept this additional cnarge lor the sake of getting the sewer Droieet underwav th. are others who would find it something of a burden and still others who would just naturally una it aisiasteiul. Present at the regular meeting Monday evening was C. r siocKman of Baker, engineer for the city's water system and retained for consultant on th sewer project. He offered some suggestions relative to the project and stated that it is possible to get federal unencumbered as sistance on the engineering ex pense. This would be contingent upon the city's efforts to f Inane the construction of the project ine city is still looking for a suitable site for the disnmul plant. Stockman shed some light on this feature of a sewer system, removing some doubt in the minds of the councilmen relative to the advisability of locating it in territory that might become the locale for a residential i. velopment. The answer is that ine type or disposal plant plan ned for Heppner is not offensive to a degree that people could not live nearby without suffering discomfort. Mrs. Blanche Brown appeared before the council to request that a street be established leading from Water street to the alley approaching the Don Grady property. She has several n. sirable building lots bordering the proposed street and said she would give up to 40 feet off of the west side of her property to get the street Dut through The council asked for more speci fic details before making a de cision. Services For Walter Corley Jr. To Be Held Friday P. M. At lone Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock tomorrow from the Co-operative church in lone for William Walter (Buzzie) Corley, three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter W. Corley, who pass ed away Tuesday at The Dalles. The little boy had submitted to a tonsillectomy and apparently was doing all right and the phy sician believes a blood clot caus ed him to expire suddenly. Rev. Alfred, Shirley, pastor of the lone Co-Operative church, will officiate and arrangements are in charge of the Phelps Fu neral Home of Heppner. Inter ment will be in the lone IOOF cemetery. "Buzzie," as he was affection ately called by family and friends, was the only grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. William Seehafer and as Mr. Seehafer said, "he was our only boy," since the See hafer children are all girls. The family is heartbroken over the little boy's passing and the sympathy of the community goes out to them in their hour of sorrow. Mrs. B. C. Forsythe, president of the Morrow County P-TA Council, announced this morn ing that the council will hold a joint meeting with the Hepp. ner Parent Teacher association at the school house Wednesday eve ning, May 10. It will be a dinner meeting and will be attended by patrons from Boardman. Irrigon, lone, Lexington and Heppner. Dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. The program will be in conjunc tion with the Heppner chapter, this being the date for the regular monthly meeting of the local P-TA.
