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Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, July 27, 1950
Volume 67, Number 19
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Hiway Commission
Makes Tour Thru
Interior Country
Hold Meeting Here
Tuesday With Few
Road Enthusiasts
Oregon's interior highway sys
tem is definitely on the minds of
the mmrbers of the highway
commission, Chairman Ben Chan
dler of Coos Bay told a group of
road enthusiasts at a special
luncheon held in the lounge room
of the Elks building Tuesday.
"We are deeply iterested in the
highway problems of every sec
tion of the state and are here to
day to learn what we can of the
problems of Morrow county," he
said.
The three members of the com
mission, Mr. Chandler, Charles
Reynolds of La Grande, and Milo
Mclver of Portland, accompanied
by R. H. Baldock, state highway
engineer; W. C. Williams, assist
ant state engineer; H. B. Glais
yer, commission secretary; C. H.
Armstrong, Pendleton, park sup
erintendent, succeeding Sam H.
Bordman; Eddie Chidsey, division
engineer; Clifford G. Polk, as
sistant district engineer of the
Bureau of Public Roads, . and
Ralph Watson, public relations
director for the-mmisskn:rrN
er guests included Judge Sturgis
of Umatilla county; Commission
er Chapman, same county, and
several Pilot Rock citizens, among
them Paul Brocker and Jim Hos
kins. Henry Tetz, president of the
chamber of commerce, served as
emcee for the luncheon and later
turned the meeting over to Judge
Garnet Barratt, ' who presented
the local citizens to the visitors
before bringing up Morrow coun
ty's needs from the standpoint of
roads. Tetz had previously intro
duced the visitors and called up
on the commissioners and some
of their staff for remarks.
Chairman Chandler emphasiz
ed the fact that the commission
would like to give the people of
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HAD WONDERFUL TRIP;
GLAD TO BE HOME
Happy over a wonderful trip
but at the same time glad to be
home, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Turner
returned to Heppner Sunday af
ter traversing most of the outer
rim states of the country. The trip
was made primarily for Mr. Tur
ner to attend the Elks national
convention at Miami, Fla.
Going Union Pacific to Chicgo,
the Turners went on to New York,
down the east coast to Miami,
and returned by the southern
route to Los Angeles and then on
up the coast to Portland and
home. Their schedule was ar
ranged to permit several days in
each of the larger cities. In New
York they viewed the city from
atop the Empire State building
and J. O. reports that he got some
excellent pictures from that van
tage point.
The travelers were favored with
good weather throughout their
journey, which made sightseeing
a genuine pleasure.
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At Tuesday's luncheon with
the highway commission, Henry
Tetz introduced Charles Reynolds
as a famous quarterback on an
Oregon State college team of yes
teryear. As a matter of fact, it
was back in the days when the
school was called Oregon Agri
cultural college.
This mention of quarterback
ing brought Chairman Ben Chan
dler to his feet with an interest
ing sidelight on the present com
mission personnel. He said all
three members are former foot
ball players, and that all three
had played quarterback on their
respective teams. Chandler play
ed for the University of Oregon,
Reynolds for-OAC, and Milo Mc
lver for Washington State col
lege. All three were outstanding
players, with Reynolds one of the
lightest men playing on any
northwest college team at that
time. His diminutive stature
earned him the sobriquet of
"Shrimp", and Shrimp he has
been to his old college mates and
business and social associates
to this late day.
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Mrs. Florence Olson from Iowa
and Mr. and Mrs. Art Long of
Gearhart were week-end visitors
at the Marion Olson home. While
here they were honored with a
picnic in the mountains. Mr. and
Mrs. Long returned home Mon
day, leaving Mr. Olson's mother
to visit for a few weeks before
returning to Deg Moines,
OLD SOL REALLY
HAS HIS FURNACE
STOKED THIS WEEK
Dreams of the seashore, or fa
vorite spots in the mountains, or
along the banks of cool, trout -laden
streams are occupying the
minds of many citizens this week
as Old Sol pours on the heat.
Some may be fortunate enough
to realize their dreams but with
harvest in full swing and busi
ness houses experiencing a short,
age of help, the number who can
take vacations is rather limited.
Monday was the hottest day
recorded in the current heat wave.
The temperature that day was 96,
according to the official thermo
meter reading'made by Len Gil
liam, resident weather observer.
Tuesday saw the mercury stand
ing vat 92. A breeze throughout
trie day made conditions slight
ly more bearable .Wednesday,
with a four point drop below
Tuesday's high.
Ranchers say it is ideal wea
ther for grain harvesting. Lack
of dew permits getting into the
fields at an early hour.
Cutting is gradually spreading
out over the county and reports
coming in indicate that there will
be a lot of grain harvested.
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Final Rites For
Elisah G. Sperry
Final rites for Elisah G. Sper
ry, 51, were held at 2 o'clock p.
m. Wednesday from the Cooper
ative church in lone. Rev. W. W.
Head officiated and arrange
ments were in charge of the
Phelps Funeral Home of Hepp
ner. Interment was in the I. O.
O. F. cemetery at lone.
Mr. Sperry died suddenly from
a heart attack Sunday morning
at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Eldon Padberg, in Lexing
ton. He had been working in
harvest and went to lone Sat
urday evening. Returning to Lex
ington he became ill that night
and his condition grew steadily
worse.
Mr. Sperry was a native of
lone and spent his life in the
county. He was born March 16,
1899 and was 51 years, four
months and seven days of age.
He was a veteran of World War I.
Deceased is survived by his
wife, Amy C, lone; two daugh
ters, Mrs. Padberg at Lexington
and Charlotte Ausman, Asotin,
Wash.; two grandchildren, one
niece.
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HOW TO REPORT
A FOREST FIRE
Many people have asked the
Keep Oregon Green association
what to do in case they see a
forest fie.
Here is the simple set of in
structions which every citizen
is urged to follow:
Go to the nearest telephone.
Tell the operator you wish to
report a forest fire. She will con
nect you with the nearest fire
warden or ranger. Tell the fire
warden the approximate location"
of the fire. Give nearest land
marks, crossroads or identifying
aids to help orient the fire. Do
not report the fire if men are
fighting it.
Telephone operators are urged
to cooperate and save the time
of fire headquarters dispatchers
by advising the citizen if the fire
has already been reported.
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Kane Home Scene
Of Wedding Vows
Friday Evening
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Bert
Kane was the setting July 21 for
the wedding of Miss Beverly Yo
com, daughter of J. R. Yoeom of
Rufus, to Eddie Gunderson Jr.,
son of Eddie Gunderson Sr. and
Mrs. Lucille Gunderson of Hepp
ner. Rev. Glenn Warner performed
the 7:30 p. m. ceremony in front
of the fireplace which was bank
ed with gladioli, asters and
painted daisies and flanked by
candelabra.
Given by her father, the bride
wore an aqua wool suit with
pink and white accessories. Her
corsage was a single white or
chid. Mrs. James Jensen, sister
of the bride was honor attendant.
Donald Gunderson was best man
for his brother. The candles were
lighted by Joe Yocom, brother of
the bride.
The wedding march was play
ed by Miss Eleanor Rice, and
Mary Gunderson, sister of the
groom, sang "Always."
Following the reception the
couple left for a wedding trip to
California. The newlyweds will
be at home in Heppner after
July 30.
Willows Grange To Honor Her Saturday
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Photographer Louis Lyons says it isn't any trick at all to get a
princess to smile but it requires real skill to get a horse to look
interested. It looks like Louie succeeded admirably in this picture
of Princess Jane Seehafer and her horse Copper. The cameraman
has to whistle (not at the girl), wave his hands frantically and go
through numerous gyrations to get the horse to watch the birdie.
Jane and Copper will be busy from now until after the Morrow
County Fair and Rodeo, with the big event of the season coming up
for Princess Jane this Saturday evening when her sponsor, Willows
grange, will honor her with the first princess dance of the 1950
season.
Western Scouts Thought
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Easterners Unskilled in Art
Of Trading; Know Better fJow
Western Boy Scouts have more
on the ball than the eastern sea
board boys when it comes to
trading souvenirs, or at least that
is what the boys from the west
side of the Mississippi thought
until they "bit" for some Kentuc
ky bluegrass that turned out to
have been one of the fescues or
some other type of grass used
at Valley Forge. The boys from
out west" had traded numerous
articles off to their eastern com
patriots, offering cockleburrs as
porcupine eggs and getting by
with some of the effete eastern
ers but having to switch to some.
thing else when some of the ru
al boys got wise.
Trading souvenirs was just a
bit of pastime the Scouts indulg
ed in when not busy seeing the
sights on the grand trip to Valley
Forge, Pa. to attend the national
jamboree, in which two Heppner
boys, Terry Thompson and Ray
mond Murlatt, participated. Ter
ry told the chamber of commerce
about the trip at Mondays lun
cheon and it was a travelogue
well worth listening to.
The Blue Mountain Council
Scouts left Pendleton Monday af
ternoon, June 19 on a regular
train. At Nampa, Ida., the spec
ial containing the Scout delega
tions from the Wall Walla dis
trict to Nampa was made up.
The special was routed Salt Lake
City, Denver and Chicago. At
Salt Lake there was a special
concert in the Mormon tabernacle
and swimming in Great Salt
Lake. There was sightseeing at
Denver. In Chicago, among nu
merous big city experiences, the
CAR SHORTAGE WORRIES
RAILROAD OFFICIALS
With an abundant crop being
harvested and a brisk movement
in lumber in this area, railroad
officials are worried over their
inability to supply a sufficient
number of cars to meet the sit
uation. So far, on the Heppner branch
the Union Pacific has managed
to just about keep even with the
demand for cars but with prepar
ations for war becoming more
intense every day there is little
hope that cars can be kept com
ing on anything like a regular
basis.
Railroad officials and ranchers
are hoping that it will not be
necessary to dump wheat on the
ground at the elevators but there
Is little to encourage them in
thinking that thli will not have
to b done.
boys enjoyed riding the "El"
through the heart of the city. At
Detroit they were given a view
of the ssembly line in the Ford
factory; visited the famous vil
lages of Greenville and- Dear
born. In New York they had suf
ficient time to see many of the
outstanding attractions and no
one tried to sell them the Brook
lyn bridge. Radio City proved
most interesting. The Scouts vis
ited Philadelphia's historical
spots; saw the national capitol
and the Washington monument
in Washington, D. C; visited
Pittsburg, Columbus Ohio, Mam
mouth Caves in Kentucky; went
from Kansas City to New Orle
ans, thence to Houston, Corsicana
and Dallas, Texas, then on to
Denver and home.
Approximtely 50,000 Boy Scouts
attended the jamboree. That
gave the Blue Mountain boys
ample material to work on with
out having to repeat on any
customers.
One of the outstanding things
done was the lighting of candles
by the entire scout personnel at
a very special service. The lights
were on for just a brief period
but Terry said it was an impres
sive sight.
It was a never-to-be-forgotten
experience in the lives of the Boy
Soouts whose good fortune it
was to attend the jamboee.
Terry was accompaned to the
luncheon by his father, Stephen
Thompson.
Another visitor at the lunch
eon was Lew Wallace of Port
land, who attended as a guest
of Judge Garnet Barratt.
UNDERGOES MAJOR SURGERY
A. K. McMurdo is a patient at
the Pioneer Memorial hospital
where he underwent major sur
gery Tuesday afternoon at the
hands of his brother, Dr. A. D.
McMurdo.
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Mrs. Sara McNamer and Mrs.
Mary Van Stevens left Wed
nesday afternoon for Seaside
where Mrs. McNamer will rest
for several weeks. She will have
residence with Mrs. Emma Evans
during her stay there. Mrs. Ste
vens expects to return home af
ter a brief visit at the coast.
Word comes from the Swag
gart ranch that Mrs. B. F, Swag
gart is not doing very well fol
lowing her recent illness. Mrs.
Swaggart spent two weeks at
the Pioneer Memorial hospital
but wanted to return to the
ranch, and did so as soon as she
was able to travel. She is past
90 years of age and is one of the
oldMt pioneers of this section.
Opening Dance At .
New Pavilion Hails
1950 Rodeo Season
First Princess
Dance Scheduled
At lone Saturday
A crowd that filled the big new
pavilion at the fair grounds brot
the 1950 Rodeo season into being
Saturday night. The people of
the county addicted to tripping
the light fantastic turned out to
step to the tuneful music of Jim
my Whetmore and his band. And
if the enthusiasm displayed at
the opening dance is any criter
ion, it looks like the 1950 season
is on the way to matchng any
record made in previous Rodeo
seasons.
The scene shifts this week-end
to lone where Willows grange
will be host for a party in honor
of the grange's representative on
Queen Joan's royal court, Princ
ess Jane Seehafer. For this event,
the Farrows orchestra of Long
Creek will supply the music. The
Home Economics club of Willows
grange will provide refreshments.
On August 5, Lexington grange
will do the honors at the fair
pavilion in behalf of Princess
Betty Graves.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Garner
were in Heppner' Monday making
arrangements for the Greenfield
grange dance which will honor
Princess Evelyn Miller. The
dance will be held at the fair
pavilion here and Cliff Slack's
orchestra will "send" with the
music.
Rhea Creek will honor Princess
Pat Campbell with a party at the
fair pavilion the night of August
19.
On August 26 the Rodeo com
mittee will hold a dance at the
pavilion and on September 2 the
crowning event of the pre-Rodeo
season, the queen's dance, will
be the offering of the Rodeo as
sociation. Dnacers report that the floor of
the new pavilion improves with
each dance and the popularity of
the big building is increasing
with each event held there.
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Annual Field Day
Set For Wednesday
At Hermiston Site
Wednesday, August 2, is the
date set for the annual field day
at the Umatilla branch experi
ment station at Hermiston. The
station is located one and one
half miles south of Hermiston.
The farmers in the irrigated
areas of eastern Oregon are cor
dially invited to visit the station
and see the research plot work.
All visitors are invited to bring
picnic lunches and eat on the
station grounds. The local gran
ges and farm bureaus are plan
ning to hold picnics on the sta
tion grounds on that day. The
Hermiston chamber of commerce
will furnish free iced tea and
coffee for the picnic groups.
The field trips will start at
9:30 a. m., standard time. Field
tours will be taken at intervals
during the morning so that vis
itors arriving late will still have
an opportunity to see the exper
iments. Field work to be shown in
cludes fertilizers for corn, alfal
fa, sunflowers and pastures. Va
rities of sunflowers, alfalfa,
beans and table beets can be
seen. There will be a short group
discussion of the various projects
after the picnic lunch. The vis
itors will have an opportunity to
ask questions or look at experi
ments that they are particularly
interested in during the after
noon. SELLS REGISTERED STOCK
Everett Harshman, in town on
business last Saturday, reported
sale of 15 registered Hereford
heifers to Newt O'Harra of Lex
ington. Harshman has developed
a fine herd at his Hardman Here,
ford ranch.
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Not Enough Chauffeurs, Maybe
The House Appropriations com.
mittee recently reported that the
Denver office of one Agricultural
department agency had 217 auto
biles, of which 194 were not used
during the first four months of
19-19. In the first six months, 80
of them had still not been used.
Rev. Franklin Evanson and
family visited overnight at the
Marvin Wightman home Thurs
day. They are on their way home
to McMinnville after a vacation
from his duties as rector of the
Episcopal church there. Rev. Ev
anson and WMghtnian taught at
Arlington some years ago.
Yeager Residence
Gutted By Fire at
Early Hour Monday
Sleeper Seriously
Burned When Fag
Sets Fire to Bedding
Smoking in bed almost coat
the smoker his life and caused
heavy damage to the residence
property of Mr. and Mrs. O. M.
Yeager at an early hour Monday.
But for the prompt response by
the fire department and neigh
bors there would have been a
more tragic story.
Oscar Crump is in a Portland
hospital suffering from severe
burns resulting from setting his
bed on fire. He was first taken
to the Pioneer Memorial hospital
but the examining physician
felt he should be taken to a lar
ger hospital since the nature of
his burns was such that more
adequate facilities were needed.
Upstairs in another bedroom
was Crump's partner, Ralph Zim
merman, who was unaware of
the fire until Mr. Yeager aroused
him.
Speaking of the fire, Mr. Yea
ger was aroused by a sound sim
ilar to a window slamming
down. He finally decided to in
vestigate and went upstairs. Op
ening the door to Crump's room
he found a fire well underway
and the heat so intense that his
hair and eyelashes were singed.
He shouted at Crump and re
mained only long enough to see
the man stir and had to close the
door to shut out the heat. He
was greatly surprised to learn
that Crump had made his escape,
which was accomplished by
jumping from the second story
window to the ground. Crump
was badly burned and it was
feared that he may have suffered
internal injuries as a result of
the jump.
Mrs. Yeager called the fire de
partment and rang for the am
bulance and a doctor. Frank
Turner arrived about the time
Crump jumped ad helped extin
guish the fire which was burn
ing his clothing and hair.
Crump jumped and helped extin
new arrivals and had just start
ed working for Ike Cole trans
porting lumber from Monument
to the plant of the Heppner Lum
ber company. When they engag
ed rooms at the Yeager residence
they were warned about smoking
n bed and the proprietors' aver
sion to drinking, but the warn
ing seemed to have been unheed
ed, at least by Crump.
Mr. and Mrs. Yeager are occu
pying the downstairs of the
house, despite extensive damage
from water. The upper part of the
residence was badly damaged
but they hope to be able to make
the repairs without having to
vacate.
Precipitation By
Artificial Means
Getting Results
Leo Horrigan, Prosser wheat
farmer, who has engaged Irving
Krick and his Water Resources
Development corporation to in
crease rain fall in the Horse Hea
ven section by artificial nuclea-
tion, met with the directors of
the Trl-county Weather Research
Inc. in Arlington Monday eve
ning. Horrigan is quite pleased
with the work done in June on his
farm.
The work is still in the exper
imental stages, Horrigan told the
group. He felt many of the ans
wers now needed will not be
available until 10 years of addi
tional experimentation has been
completed.
Directors of the Tri -County
Weather Research, Inc. have en
gaged the Water Research Devel
opment corporation to prepare a
survey of potential increases in
rainfall through artificial nucle
ation in Gilliam, Morrow and
Sherman counties. They will also
secure detailed weather forecasts
from Krick's group. All members
of the organization will receive
copies of these forecasts.
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Francis Cook, Bill Barratt and
M. Ri Wightman will attend the
annual agriculture teachers con
ference at Waldport July 31- Au
gust 4.
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A CORRECTION
Omission of a price in the ad
vertisement of the Heppner Ap
pliance Co. was discovered too
late to make the correction in the
ad. Under the lines "Model RM
35 with Cook-Master Oven Clock
Control, Lamp and Utensil Draw
r" the price should rwul $199.75.
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DRUNK DRIVERS THICKER
There are more drunken driv
ers than ever, getting thicker
behind the ears. Then, too, the
cops are watching more. The
judges are throwing the book at
more of them than get into court.
There was a 22 percent increase
in drunken driving convictions
during the first six months of
this year compared with the
same period In 1949.
During the first six months of
this year there were 1,103 licen
ses revoked for drunken driving,
compared with 907 during the
first six months of 1949.
The penalties of the present
law are not curbing drunken
driving.
A law that would revoke the
liquor purchasing permit of a
person convicted of driving while
intoxicated will be proposed to
the 1951 legislature.
A candidate who is practically
certain to be elected in November
says he will introduce such a
bill and an amendment to the
present law to revoke the driv
er's license and motor vehicle li
cense upon the second conviction.
JOE DUNNE WILL RUN
Joe E. Dunn's nominating con
vention is completing details this
week to place his name on the
November ballot as an indepen
dent candidate for governor.
This will be Joe's second try.
He won the republican nomina
tion for governor in 1934 In a 5
man race defeating Sam Brown,
Rufus Holman, Ulysses Grant
McAlexander (The Rock of the
Marne) and Frank J. Lonnergan.
In the November general elec
tion he trailed the field. He was
defeated by both the democratic
candidate (Charles H. Martin)
and the independent candidate
(Peter Zimmerman of "Old Yam
hill.") Dunne declared before the May
primary election he would run as
an independent if State Senator
Austin Flegel won the democra
tic nomination. His entrance in
the gubernatorial race will prob
ably break up flank movements
to organize a republican club for
Flegel or a democratic club for
McKay.
day. Their itinerary included
stops at Timberline lodge, Prlne
ville, Heppner, Wallowa lake, La
Grande, Baker, Jordan Valley
and Burns.
GUBERNATORIAL
APPOINTMENTS
Governor Douglas McKay this
week announced the appoint
ment of Erland M. Sundell, Port
land, as a member of the Advis
ory Committee to the Director of
Veterans' Affairs; the appoint
ment of George Holcomb and re
appointment of Ulysses G. Plum-
ber Jr. both of Portland, as mem
bers of the Advisory Committee
of the Fair Employment Practi
ces Ace; Mrs. DeNlce Holmes,
Lebanon, as a member of the
Linn county public welfare com
mission; Mrs. Stanley G. Jewett,
Portland, as a member of the
Multnomah county public wei-
fare commission; Colonel A. H.
Dudley, Phoenix, as a member of
the state board of livestock auc
tion markets; Reid Hubberd,
Summerville, as a member of the
Union county public welfare com
mission and O. L. Adey, Enter
prise, as a member of the Wallo
wa county public welfare com
mission.
OREGON WAGES TOPS
Oregon wages are slightly
above comparable totals from
other states, according to reports
of the state uemployment com
pensation commission.
Production workers are averag
ing $1.78 an hour and $69.47 a
week. Lumber workers are aver
aging $73.33 a week; durable
goods workers $71.92; non-durable
workers $60.94. Printing
and publishing workers advanc
ed recently from $78.16 to $83.27.
FINAL DATE
August 14 is the final date on
which independent candidates
for office at the November gen
eral election may file with the
state elections bureau, David O'-
llara,' chief of the state elections
division warned this week-end.
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Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Freeman
from lone are staying with Mrs.
R. F. Gearhart, Mrs. Freeman's
mother, during her llln.