I E T Y PUBLIC AUDITORIUM PORTLAND, QRZ. $3.00 Per Year; Single Copies 10c Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, May 25, 1950 Volume 67, No. 10 Farmers; Townsmen To Lunch at Rhea Creek Next Week C. of C. Sponsoring Event in Behalf of Farmers Fiejd Day Farmers and townfolk will meet in joint luncheon Thursday, Jllnp 1 at Phpa fYpplr crranrro hall when the Heppner chamber ui commerce win De nosts to iarmers 01 tne county on the oc casion of the annual field day conrlnptpri hv tho PYtpncinn cor. vice of Oregon State college and me sou conservation service. Sinpp m:inv mpmlvro nf tho chamber of commerce may be out oi town next Monday it was decided to pass up the regular luncheon and take the food to Rhea creek and eat wth the farm group on Thursday. Itinerary of the field day has been worked out to start at the O. W. Cutsforth ranch north of .Lexington at 9:45 a.m. where farm irrigation practices from dPPn WPll nnmnincy uill K served. From there the group will go io ine raui Brown iarm north west of Heppner to view the work being done in producing wheat grasses for seed production and advances made in sod water ways. While at the Brown ranch me visuurs wui De given an opportunity to take an over-the-fence glimpse of stubble mulch summerfallnw nn tho ManlHn. Bunch ranch recently acquired num me iwans Drotners. The next stop will be at the Bechdolt ranch near Hardman where sod waterway seeding has been done and where consider able attention has been given to grass legume strips. Here also will be an opportunity to observe effective work of 2,4D in killing out wild morning glory, a pro ject started in 1949. After lunch at the Rhea Creek grange hall, Art King, soil con servation specialist from Oregon State college, will discuss fea tures of the field day program. The party is expected to arrive at the hall by 12:15 for lunch. There will be a motion picture on conservation. The meeting will dissolve at 1:45 p.m. and the caravan will proceed to the Elmer Palmer ranch in Eight Mile to see what is being done in the way of strip cropping with some of the new grasses for seed. The tour will end at the Dr. Wood ruff farm (the old Clive Huston place) to view the dry land al falfa crop, which Nels Ander son says is really something. Mrs. Mitchell Is Named Treasurer Mrs. Frances Mitchell, deputy sheriff and tax collector for sev eral years, has been named by the county court to fill the un expired term of the late Leon W. Briggs as county treasurer. To accept the elective position, Mrs. Mitchell was required to re. sign as deputy and tax collec tor, but will remain in the of fice as clerk until Janury 1, 1951 when she will be reinstated to her former position. For the present, or until July 10, Miss Leila McLachlan will serve as deputy sheriff and tax collector. After that and until the first of the year, Mrs. Albert Massey will take over. In making this arrangement the court has effected a small economy in salaries. Such a move has been discussed from time to time, since the treasurer's office is not a full time job as compared to Other offices in thp rnnrt hnuso and this will give ample oppor- ( lunuy io see wnetner or not the arrangement will prove satisfac tory. o Masons Assemble In District Meeting Approximately 50 Masons gathered at the Masonic hall Saturday evening in a district meeting. Dinner was served at 6:30, the Elkhorn cafe doing the catering and the Rainbow girls the serving. Members of the order from Fossil, Condon, Arlington, lone and the Heppner lodges were in attendance at this the last dis trict No. 28 meeting to be pre sided over by Andrew Staig of Fossil lodge, district deputy grand master. Aside from strictly lodge mat ters, the group voted to have a Masonic picnic at the Wightman ranch in the Blue mountains on Sunday, July 9. This will include Masons and their families. o Mrs. Lewis H. Irving and Mrs. Tom Leach of Madras were over night guests of Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Crawford Friday. The ladies were in attendance at the East ern Star party honoring Grand Warder Mrs. Glenn Jackson, at Hermiston and took the oppor tunity of a short visit with the G. T. family before they went on to Long Creek Saturday after noon to attend another party honoring Mrs. Ruth Piequet, Grand Ruth of the Grand Chap ter, Order of the Eastern Star in Oregon. Mrs. Irving is a mem ber of the credentials committee of the grand chapter. Advertisers, Correspondents Please Take Notice I Tuesday. May 30. is a holiday That is also the day the Gazette Times advertising manager makes the rounds of the busi ness houses. It will be greatly appreciated if your advertising is ready to be picked up Monday. Correspondents should send in copy one day earlier than usual. The Gazette Times shop will be closed ruesday. we can t do all of the work of putting the paper togetner in one or two days. o V Lexington Juniors Fete Seniors With Annual Banquet - By Delpha Jones The Junior-Senior banquet was hplri nnp niirht last wppIi in tho school lunch room. The rooms were decorated with red and White erpno nanpr rippnratinns Tahlp riproratinns wprs nanor white narcissus and red tulips. Patty Majeske was master of Ldeiiiumes ana aiso gave tne wplonmina. enppph to tUa iricitirto- seniors. The menu consisted of DaKea ham, potatoes, gravy, Deas. banana rream nip anri coffee. Seniors who were guests for the orcasinn wprp THa Rn chanan, Marvin Way and Charley rauDerg. The mnthprs toa nf tho room was held last Thursday aiiernoon in the school lunch room, with the president. Mrs. Hermann Hreen in nharcro Mrs Sorlien's room pntprtainpri tho visiting mothers and their chil- uren at a snort program in the iirst ann speonrt crrario rnnmc The mothers uprp then enter tained in the basement with re- Ireshmenrs nf rnnkips canriwinh. es. POffpp flnri tho hncinoce nf getting acquainted. Officers for me coming year were elected, presiuem. Demg Mrs. uiovis Ar boeast and Mrs. Kenneth Pal mpr secretary. Mrs. Earl Warner returned Fri day from Corvallis where she's been with her brother Bill Mc Millan whn hari an nnoratinn at the hospital there. She brought ner granaaaugnter ueanna Hays, dauehter of Mr. and Mrs. Clar. ence Hayes, home with her for a visit. The Lexington P-TA held their regular meeting in the school auditorium last Tuesriav with the program being furnish- ea oy tne iirst and second grade rooms. They sang several num- hPTS Arid haH tun niann unlne Kr members of their room, Judith Wihlon and Charlen Jones. De- anna Steagall played, Peach Blossoms. After tho hi meeting, refreshments were serv- ea in me luncn room. A Memorial program will be given at Leeion hall MnnHa night at 8 p.m. to which all ser vice personnel are invited. Spe cial musical numbers and short address by a local speaker are on the program. Baccalaureate was held at the Christian church Sunday with the Rev. Cantrpll nffiriotlrnr re cessional was played by Shirley num. opctiai music was lurnish ed by Ida Shivers on her accor- aian. Miss Dona Rarnott anri Krc . " L 1,113. irina Parker returned home Tuesday from a few days stay hi ruiuanu. iney motored down with Archie Nickols and mother. Ina Nickols. Mr. and Mrs. Ham Burchell of Sheridan wprp hiipf vicitnri - the Charles Breshears home on Saturday. MrS. W V McMillan on,t ----- . ....... I... u,i kiiu 4-iirua Majeske returned home Friday f.nM U II... I.-. .. urn me neucKan convention at Astoria. Mrs. Joe Wark Sr. and daugh ter, Marjorie Houck and children SUent Katllrriaw t,io!il i Pendleton and Hermiston. The Three Links club will hold a special meeting Monday the 29th of May at the E. E. McFad den home. Mrs. Laura Scott spent last at her home in Lexington from Thp Dallpc whoro chn i. been with her daughter and laumy, mrs. naipn Jackson. Mrs. Npw't D'Hurro o.,,t w..u.in cwiu sun Jack were Pendleton visitors Monday. o Final Count Here Shows No Change In Voting Trend Final tahlllatinn nf tho ml,,-.,,. from the nine precincts of the cuuniy snows no deviation from me trena indicated in the report made on six of the precincts in last week's issue of the Gazette Times. The total vote was as follows: Judiciary ballot Dunn 238 Maguire 232; Tooze 339. Democratic ballot U. S. Sena tor: Latourette 102; Wood 124. Congressman Rull fid- r.arstn 24; Bowman 146. Governor i-iegei m; Pearson 64; Wallace 173. Labor commissioner Mor gan 161. Republican ballot: U. S. Sena tor Hoover 159; McBride 56; Morse 363. Governor Mnk'av 551. Congressman Stockman 482. Labor commissioner Kim sey 398. State senator Ellis 471. State representative French 310; Peterson 511. Class of 1950 To Bow Out Friday Evening T ' " 'kf, (A J o fa m L e & n f tf Reading from left to right, but. torn row: Betty Walker, Kathryn Campbell, Marlene Turner, Bar bara stout, Betty Graves, colleen Connor, Lorene Mitchell, Louise Schunk. Darlene Wise. Second row: June Van Winkle, Francine Hisler, Joyce Buschke, Peggy Ployhar, Eunice Keithley, Colleen Prock, Kathleen Matte- son, Delores Baker. Third row: Harold Manners, Loren Piper, Gerald Bergstrom, Charles Bloodsworth, Norman Ruhl- Robert Bergstrom, Carl Thorpe, James Orwick, Charles Phegley, Vernon Bohles, adviser. Absent from picture: Rachel 250 Exhibitors To Display Fat Stock At 4-H-FFA Show Among the 250 young exhibi tors from eleven Eastern Oregon counties who will be exhibiting fat livestock at the Oregon Wheat Growers League Fat Show and sale will be twelve 4-H members from Morrow county, announces N. C. Anderson, county agent. Ingrid Herman, Janet Howton. John Howton, Ronald and Duane Baker, Herbert Ekstrom, and Le land McKinney of lone, Rieta and Deane Graves, Joanne Wil son of Heppner, Marilyn Munk ers, Lexington and Mike Stal cup, Boardman, will be exhibi tors of 10 beef, nine lambs and four hogs. Final touches are being put to the animals now with next week to climax final preparations. An imals will be fitted and groomed for the annual 4-H tour to be held on June 2- and 3, before going to The Dalles for showing on June 5, 6 and 7. This show and sale, a popular one with Morrow County 4-H members promises to be the best yet this year with 300 head of livestock consigned by 4-H mem. bers. This is more than twice the number exhibited at the 1949 show. 4-H members, leaders and par ents will be specially entertain ed during tne three day event with a banquet at the Elks Temple, the evening of June 6, with a tireworks display later ffrom a Columbia river barge. A boat trip on the yacht, Frances, by courtesy of the Inland Navi gation Company is planned for the afternoon of June 7, with the auction sale that night. Total Levy For $43,000 Less A perusal of .the Rural School District budget as published prior to the budget election on May 15, will reveal that the total levy for the schools of the county is $43,000 less than it was last year. The base can be increased only six percent above that of last year which was $103,214.23, or up to $109,406.00 even if the present levy of $337,013 is adopt ed. The base can only be increas ed six percent in one year no matter what the total levy that is adopted. For example (if present valua tions remain in the county): 1950, $103,214.23; 1951, 109,406; 1952, $115,970. This will mean that under continuing present conditions the Rural District levy will have to be voted on annually at special elections to exceed the six percent limitation. In answering some of the ques tions arising relative to the budget and school financing, Supt. Henry Tetz has arranged a question and answer form in an effort to simplify explanation of the school problem. Question: What is the Rural School Board's own budget, how is it handled within the six per cent limitation and how does it compare to last year? or Cox, Rose Pierson, Eileene Keen an Prock. Exercises marking the close of school and commencement for the Class of 1950, Heppner high school, will be held in the school auditorium at 8 o'clock Friday evening. It will be the 40th an nual commencement for the local school. The following program has been arranged: Processional, Pomp and Cir cumstance, school band. Invocation, Rev. Glenn Warner. "Dianne " clarinet duet. - Address "Where Do You Go From Here," Dr. Lyle H. Johnson, County Ready To Start Construction Of Machine Building Work on the county's new ma chine shop and storage building will start next week, Judge Garnet Barratt announced Wed nesday. Some delay has been ex perienced in getting the plans worked out to the satisfaction of the court, but these wrinkles have been removed and nearly everything is in readiness. The new build'-ng will be 50x80 feet. It will tiave concrete footings and walls will be of a new type building block. A site on the southeast part of the fair grounds has been selected and the court has reserved enough snacp tn nprmit narkincr nf trn-.L-o and other equipment which has io pe wornea on in tne snop. Since a permanent site has been obtained for tho pnnntv sheds and shop, it is the desire oi tne court to make the build- ines as permanent as nneoihlo There is more "elbow" room out at the new location than on the site in town that will soon be vacated anri pffnrt uili ho Hi. rected towards obtaining a high er working efficiency. Work at the new fair pavilion is nrOPTPSsinff caticfantrtrilr Plans are going forward to lay me concrete iioor in the dance pavilion end of the building and it is expected this will ho mm., pleted in time to hold all of the pre-iair-roaeo dances out there. Mrs. Susie Hughes is expect ed to arrive home this week end from St. Anthony's hospital where she has been confined to her bed since breaking her hip in a fall at her home last January. County's Schools Actually Than 1949, Figures Reveal Answer: The Rural School Board's budget ot $lu,735 is slightly less than last year, $11, 00ft the superintendent's salary is the same, $5,600. The amount of this budget is taken out of the budget within the six percent before the remainder is appor tioned in case the rural district budget is defeated. Question: Could an education al program be maintained in the county if the budget is voted down and the schools were ask ed to operate on the receipts now available plus that amount un der the six percent? Answer: The amount below the six percent which is $103,214.23 plus the receipts of $124,000, would hardly take care of more than instruciion costs and teach, ing salaries. Most of the teach ers are now under contract and the districts are obligated for that amount. Services would have to be curtailed seriously $230, 000 worth anyone interested in schools and the education of children should study this seri ously. (Ot course each district ! could vote on its own budget to exceed the six percent and this( levy would then have to be rais- j ed within its own district). Question; What would be the K 4 f f Registrar and Counselor for Men, Eastern Oregon College of Edu cation. "I Love Life," Girls Triple Trio. Presentation of Class, Leonard L. Pate, Superintendent of Hepp ner schools. Presentation of Diplomas, Elaine S. George, chairman board of education. Salutatory, Rose Pierson. Valedictory, Gerald Bergstrom. . Awards, Leonard L. Pate. Benediction- Rev. Glenn Warn er. Recessional, Pomp and Chival ry, school band. Curbing of Mail Service Hinted 'For Branch Lines A hint that the Union Pacific and the post office department are toying with the idea of , placing the Heppner and Condon branches on star route mail i service, with no Sunday or holi day delivery, brought an im mediate protest from all present and a call to action to forestall such a move if possible. The first intimation of the pro. posed change was revealed at the chamber of commerce lunch eon Monday. It is understood that if the change is made the Flatt Truck Service, contractor with the Union Pacific for haul ing mail, express and freight between Arlington and Heppner will be excluded from bidding for the mail contract, and with no direct truck service from Ar lington, the express business will be practically a thing of the past. The membership of the cham ber of commerce was urged to write both the company and the post office department protesting the change and the same action is urged upon the citizens in general if they are pleased with the present service and do not want a change. It was decided that the cham ber of commerce will make a formal protest to both the Union Pacific and the post office de partment and all patrons of the railroad and the postal service will be urged to write the proper officials in both instances stating their views and especially stress, ing their desire to have the pres ent service continued. attitude of the state department on the distribution of state funds if schools were operated at a sub-standard level? Answer: Receipts from the sta'e, approximately $80,000, are cont ingent upon running standard ized schools, and it might be jeojardized should Morrow coun ty schools be deprived of an ade quate budget. Large sums have been budgeted the last three years to bring the schools up to standard. Question: What will the mil lage be, how does it compare with last year, and how does it com pare to other districts of the state? Answer: The millage based on present assessed valuation will be approximately 28.1 mills; last year it was 31.7. This is lower than any county unit and lower than three-fourths of the first class districts of the state. J. G. Parker and two young sons, Gregory and Anthony ot Pendleton came Wednesday for a little visit at the home of his parents, F. S. Parker. John is re cuperating from a recent opera tion on his throat. EVENING SERVICE OFFERED FOR CLASS Baccalaureate service for the Class of 1950 was the first activi ty of commencement week. Rev. Fr. Francis McCormack address ed the class, using as his theme the story of James and John. Music was furnished by the school band with Robert Collins directing. They played the pre lude while the seniors, in their white caps and gowns, filed into the first rows of the auditorium. They also played the recessional. A clarinet quartet composed of Sandra Lanham, Lynda Borman, Sharon Becket and Jim Hayes, with Eleanor Rice accompanying them, gave one number. The girls Triple Trio sang "Green Cathe drals." Rev. J. Palmer Sorlien gave the invocation and benedic tion. o ' Cricket Baiting Results in 80 to 90 Percent Kill Mormon cricket control work has progressed rapidly the past two weeks, announces N. C. And. erson. cnuntv appnt Ratinor with the Bureau of Entomology's D C-3 piane carrying f.uuu pounds ot bait to the load was started on Mav 11 anri pnmnlptorl ?nnfla, forenoon, May 14. Of 33,400 acres baited in Gilliam, Morrow and Umatilla counties, 32,080 acres were baited in Morrow county. Toxanhenp. rnllpri whoat hait. was employed, using five pounds of bait per acre. Kills as a result of the plane baiting were excel- iem. Areas Daiteo in the torenoon were checked four hours later and it was estimated that there was an 80 to 90 kill. Ground equipment is being used in scouting and follow-up baitine where small nnpirotc nf crickets were found outside the plane baited area. It appears that thp Mnrmnn cricket is findinp itself outwitted in its stand for survival and it is telt by many that this year's program will prectically eliminate crickets i n thic aroa we hope! ' 0 People Of County Asked To Replenish Umatilla "Bank" Morrow county people are beine askeri tn rinnato hlnnrf fnr the purpose of replenishing the Umatilla county blood bank which has been drawn on for patients from this county hospi talized at Pendleton from time to time. An effort is now under way to secure 100 donors in Mor row county to pay off this debt and to establish a blood bank for the Morrow County Memorial hospital which is to get into operation within a short time. Speaking to the chamber of commerce Monday noon, Mr. Erickson, representing the 16th mobile blood bank unit at Yaki ma, Wash., described the process of taking the blood and told of the mervelous results in saving human life resulting from the practice of blood transfusions. Erickson was accompanied to Heppner by Mrs. Ned Unger of Pendleton, chairman of the Uma. tilla COlintv Red Cross rhantpr They counseled with Jack Van Winkle, blood bank chairman of tne local Red Cross, relative to renavine the Umatilla hirwiH bank and to building up the lo cal bank. Van Winkle is urging the people of the countv to to this appeal as the mobile unit from Yakima will be here Tuesday, June 13 prepared to take 80 Dints nf hlnnri Tho unit will be set up in the basement ui ine Metnouisi church and blood drawing will be done from 2:30 to 7 that afternoon. o Rain Makinq And Hail Repression Trial Considered Frank Anderson. Nelsnn Anri. erson and Elvin Runrh attonH. ed a conference of Eastern Ore gon county farmers m Arling ton Wednesday afternoon when a Proposal to pxnprimpnt with a rain making and hail repres sion project was discussed. Pres ent also were R. A. Beaumont of Medford and Charlps Smith of Corvallis. Beaumont has been experimenting with "cloud seed ing, a process tor dissolving clouds that threaton hail nr causing rain when there are ciouus out no rain, ine experi ment, nas oeen successiu in the Rogue river valley to the extent that farmers and farm groups in other sections of the state have become interested. The Morrow countv riplpantoc deem the project feasible and nave set Monday evening, May 29 for a meeting of farmers of the countv at the courthniiso in Heppner to present what was learnt-a ai Arlington. They re ported that experimentation with the Process will hp carriori nut on a limited basis in Sherman, (.iiiuam and Morrow counties to determine whether an all-out campaign to combat hail and produce rain would be justified. o . Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cornelison visited Sunday at the D, Way home. Accident Proves Heppner's Undoing In Sunday s Game With Two Men On Bases, Swogger's Liner Hits Hurler The luck of the Irish doesn't hold with Heppner's 1950 base ball team. This was proved Sun day afternoon when Swogger, Heppner second basemen came up to bat with two out and two men on bases. Swoeeer picked one to his liking and slammed a hot liner toward center field with good clearance for it to get through the inneld. The trouble was that Roark, Fossil pitcher couldn't get out of the way and was knocked over by the burner. lit fell dead within his reach and he lobbed it over to first in time to put the runner out and retire the side. Roark also was retired. Basil Burnstad hurled for Heppner the first six innings. He was enjoying good control and didn't walk a single batter. He was relieved at the beelnnlne of the seventh by Doug Drake wno gave one walk but other wise gave a eood account of him self. Roark walked one and Brooks, who succeeded him after the accident, hit one batter. It was a good day for pitchers, generally speaking, although the unai score was -8. Arlington will come to Hepp ner next Sunday for the next to last game at Rodeo field in the current Wheat-Timber league season. Condon is scheduled to play here June 4 and the local team will be in the road for the rest of the season. o Picnic Will Mark Closing of First Kindergarten Year A picnic on the courthouse lawn Friday, May 26, marks the successful conclusion of the Hepp ner kindergarten s first year. Sponsored by the Jay Cee-ette organization and financed large ly through fees, the kindergarten has had an average enrollment of fourteen peppy pre-schoolers under the capable guidance of Mrs. Kicnard Meador. The kindergarten was under taken a year ago by the Jay Cee ettes, who elected Mrs. Jack Estberg, Mrs. Bill Barratt, and Mrs. Edwin Dick to organize and supervise the little school. Limit, ed by funds in their search for a location for the kindergarten, the board received permission from the city to install rest room facilities in the portion of the pavilion already in use by their organization and the Junior Chamber of Commerce, so that the children could use their meeting place as a schoolroom. Last summer the Jay Cees and Jay Cee ettes worked together to make the rooms suitable for the little folk, and to gather furni ture and donated equipment for their use. Further work is neces sary to make the rooms more comfortable and cheerful during cold weather. ine iirst year has been a 'guinea -pig" year for the kinder. garten, the largest but by no means the only project of the bustling Jay Cee-ettes. Out of their experience has grown adoption of the public school board system's three-year term for the kindergarten board. Mrs. Barratt and Mrs. Estberg are the hold-over members, with an elec. tion scheduled at the June 28 meeting to select a third member, for a three-year term. Applications are beine' accent ed by the board for an instructor lor next year s school. The in structor need not be trained as a teacher since the board and the local school will work closely with the kindergarten. Because the chief aims of kindergarten are to teach children to get along together in groups and to pre pare them for school, enjoyment and love of children are the most essential factors in selec tion of an instructor. frees for the comins year will be lower than for the oast vear. The Jay Cee-ettes will conduct one large money-making project ucai jroT io neip nnance tne school. Mrs. John Pfeiffer. president nf the Jay Cee-ettes, urges all local women who are interested in civic work to meet with her group at the pavilion club rooms on the fourth Wednesday evening of each month. Mrs. Dick and Mrs. Barratt may be contacted for details concerning next year's kinder garten or by applicants for in. structor. Mr. anri Mrs Paul Pm... little sons were called to Burns Sunday to attend the funeral services for an uncle of Mrs Brown, Lloyd McRae of Emmett, luano, wnose death followed a cerebral hemmorhage. Mr. Mc Rae was a former rancher of Mai- neur county and his body was returner! tn Rums fnr informant The Browns returned to Heppner iaie Monciay nignt. o MfS. Wintprs tniU hor nrmm of Campfire Girls to the moun tains Sunday for a picnic. They all report a lovely time.