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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.