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jkfc.QON HISTORICAL SOCIETY PUBLIC AUDITORIUM PORTLAND, ORE. $3.00 Per Year; Single Copies 10c Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, August 17, 1950 Volume 67, Number 22 Non-partisan Club Formed in County To Support McKay Veterans Organize For Active Work In Fall Campaign A non-partisan club to support the candidacy of Governor Doug las McKay has been formed in Morrow county. It is spearheaded by veterans of World Wars I and II who have declared their inten tion of offering all-out support to the governor. At a meeting held in the Legi on hall in Heppner early last week the following officers were named: Chairman, Jack Edmond. son; vice-chairman, Mrs. Gordon White; secretary, Jack VanWin kle; treasurer, James Barnett; board of directors, Lee Beckner, Robert Rietmann, Earl Gilliam, Robert De Spain,, C. J. D. Bau man, Jack Bailey, D. E. Hudson, and Dr. C. C. Dunham. The new organization is mark ing time until the general Mc-Kay-for Governor program gets under way. Non-partisan veteran committees have been formed all over the state and a co-ordinated campaign will be conducted. The veterans point to the fact that Governor McKay is a pro ven leader., jn J.931, he was elect ed major of Salem and served two terms. At the end of his sec ond term he became state sen ator and represented Marion county in that capacity until 1947. In November 1948 he was elected governor of Oregon and was in augurated on January 10, 1949. Showing his great organizational skill, Governor McKay has proved to be a working governor of Ore gon. Here are a few of the bills and programs that he has initi ated in the brief 20 months since he took the reins as governor: A long-range highway program is well under way on a pay-as-you-go program. The long-awaited building pro gram for state institutions and higher education has been start ed. The interests concerned with conservation and development of natural resources have met for the development of a compre hensive program. A research program for the de velopment of new markets for Oregon agriculture. A proposal has been readied for the 1951 legislature showing the need for reorganization of the state government to achieve ec onomies and better public ser. vice. Governor And Mrs. McKay to Lunch Here Thursday, August 24 Governor Douglas McKay and Mrs. McKay will be Heppner vi sitors a few hours Thursday, August 24, when they will arrive here about 11 a. m. from Condon, after visits to Gilliam and Whee ler county points. They will be guests of the Soroptimist club of Heppner at the regular luncheon at noon held in the luncheon room of the Elkhorn Cafe. An in vitation has been extended by the Soroptimists for others to at tend the luncheon up to the ca pacity of the lunch room. All that is required is that the club be notified and that the guests come prepared to pay for their own plates. Governor McKay has a full schedule of engagements all the time and is extremely busy right now trying to fulfill invitations from different groups around the state who wish to give evidence of the support of his candidacy. His popularity has increased and this adds to the difficulty of meeting scheduled engagements, especially in the light of added gubernatorial duties brought on by the war. The Governor and Mrs. McKay will go from Heppner to Pendle ton where they will be guests of the Round-up association. o Rev. and Mrs. E. L. Tull and daughter, Miss Dorothy Tull, left Monday morning for the Oregon coast where they will spend ten days or two weeks. Services at All Saints Episcopal church, ex cept the schurch school, will not be held Sunday. The Tulls plan to tour the " length of the coast from Astoria to Brookings if they have enough time. Miss Joan O'Harra of Carson CUy, Nev. is a guest of her uncle and aunt, Mrs. Newt O'Harra of Lexington. . , Honoree At Last Princess Dance of 1950 . . . I I - 1 . I ' fm. far-'-) A , f v ' ' - , i - " "' '';'7 ; 1 mmmtmmmmmmmmmiimmimimis.. iirtMWagTi wmmKmtti&tmmmi.immmmM Last but not least, say the Rhea Creek Grangers who are proud to present Princess Kathryn Campbell as the honored guest at the final princess dance scheduled for Saturday evening at the county fair pavilion. Cliff Slack's orchestra will be on hand to provide the musical inspiration and the Home Ec ladies, of Rhea Creek grange will be on hand with a good supply of eats. We did not learn the name of Princess Kathryn's mount but the horse in the picture is reported to have suffered an injury to a leg Saturday evening enroute to ton when his foot slipped through the sidewall of the trailer and rubbed against a wheel while the trailer was in motion. Just how seriously he was injured has not been reported but it is likely the princess will have another saddler Princess Kathryn is a real ranch girl, rides well, knows how to handle stock and is a regular hand on the ranch of her father, Pat Campbell, Rhea creek and Lonerock stockman. She graduated from Heppner high school with the class of 1950. Jay Cees Entertain State Officials At Dinner And Picnic State officials of the Junior chamber of commerce, who con vened in Heppner last week-end, were entertained with a full pro gram of eastern Oregon hospital ity. The session opened Saturday evening at the pavilion, where the Heppner Jay Cee-ettes served dinner to the local and visiting Jay Cees and their wives. Follow ing the dinner the group attend ed the pre-rodeo dance honoring Boardman's princess. Sunday noon the visitors and local Jay Cees, Jay Cee-ettes and children ate picnic style on the court house lawn. Byron "Doc" Henry, state pres ident, told the officers and mem bers of the local organization who sat in at the sessions that he is asking each club to increase its membership' by 1 of the town's increase in population from 1940 to 1950. Local Jay Cees heard brief re ports on the recent national con vention. The main business of the sessions was to formulate plans by which the state officers can help each club in the state with its own and state-wide pro jects. Visitors included State Presi dent Henry, Enterprise; Warner Crow, Lostine, secretary; vice, presidents, George McKinnon, Redmond; Clem Johnson, St. Hel ens; Bill Tipton, Roseburg; Bill Hanson, Pendleton, and Gordon KeithSalem; Bob Hyle, Portland, national director; and Mrs. Hen ry, Mrs. McKinnon, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Tipton and Mrs. Hyle. Mr. and Mrs. Hyle were guests of Mrs. Hyle's grandparents, the Ben Buschkes, and Mr. Keith vis ited the Krebs's at Cecil. Ed Dick and Edmond Gonty made arangements for entertain ing the state board and their wives. They were assisted by sev eral committees from the Jay Cee ettes: diner, Mrs. Marvin Smith, Mrs. Everett Keithley and Mrs. Edwin Dick; tables and decora tions, Mrs. James Hager, Mrs. John Pfeiffer and Mrs. Jack Est berg; picnic, Mrs. Al Huit and Mrs. Bill Farra; entertainment, Mrs. Bill Barratt and Mrs. Don Walker. Visiting ladies were particu larly interested in learning de tails of the local Jay Cee-ette kindergarten to pass on to mem bers of the organization in their own towns. the Dress-up parade in Pendle for the rest of the season. VOTE TO RAISE PRICES CLEANERS OF DISTRICT Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Collins of the Heppner Cleaners attended a meeting of cleaners of the Morrow-Umatilla region in Hermis ton Wednesday evening at which time the representatives from the Umatilla end of the district vot ed to raise the scale of cleaning prices, the change to go into ef fect immediately. The Heppner representatives feel obliged to raise their price scale in accordance with advan cing prices on all materials used and wages paid. To date, clean ing prices have been raised only 25 "percent above pre-war rates, which is mild in comparison to the general rise of prices in the same period. o VETERANS IN TRAINING UNDER GI BILL NOT RULED BY JULY 1951 DEADLINE Veterans who have started training under the G. I. Bill and who are prevented from complet ing their courses because of re entrance into the. armed forces will not be affected by the July 25 1951 training deadline date, Charles M. Cox, local VA repre sentative said today. The VA has announced that these veterans will be allowed to resume their training within a reasonable period following their release from active service, even though they're not back in school until after the statutory deadline for entering or reentering train ing. The July 25, 1951 cut-off date applies to all World War II vet erans discharged before July 25, 1947. They are required to be in training within four years of the end of the war, and training must be completed by July 25, 1956. Veterans discharged after July 25, 1947 must start their training within four years and complete it within nine years. Veterans serving during the period of the Korean emergency must show satisfactory progress and conduct during previous G. I. Bill training in order to resume training on their discharge from active duty. Training will be lim ited by the extent of their re maining entitled to educational benefits. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Dick Sr. are visiting this week at the homes of Mr. Dick's sons, Edwin Jr. and Kemp. Mr. and Mrs. Newt O'Harra of Lexington were in Portland last week to visit their son Jack who has accepted a position in that city. Fair-Rodeo Personnel Work Feverishly to of Big 1950 Show With only three short weeks to go, final arrangements, for hold ing the 1950 Morrow County Fair and Rodeo are being pushed to completion. N. C. Anderson, se cretary, announced today that with the intensive building and remodeling program necessitat ing tearing up grounds and cre ating general confusion there has been much to do preparing for this year's event. This of course will mean that facilities will be the best ever for both fair and rodeo. When completed, there will be new quarters for the sheep, hog, poultry, rabbits, wool and grain exhibits remodeled from the gen eral exhibit hall used previous to the building of a new 60x180 foot dance and exhibit pavilion. The exhibits which it will house will consist of all 4-H and open class home economic exhibits, flowers, vegetables and fruits and booths, both community and commercial. A new remodeling job of the 96x 30 livestock barn will provide room for pen and individual ex hibits of cattle. The aluminum barn built two years ago will Random Thoughts... If We Are Later Than Usual . . . ...it will be due to linotype trou ble. The old 14 got gummed up a bit and it required several hours of precious composing time to .get it back into action about four hours to find out what was wrong and two or three more to make the correction. Things happen that way. Be cause we have been too busy to take proper care of the machine, it fouled up right in the midst of the big doing of the week getting out the paper. And of course, there are two extra pages which mean more hours than those lost on the machine. Despite all the rush attendant upon fair and rodeo preparations, in which the Gazette Times prin tery has had somewhat of a part the past few weeks and still has numerous jobs to turn out before opening day, the news paper office will be closed Sat urday and will reopen Monday when the family returns from Wallowa Lake. Inspiration for the trip is a district meeting of newspapermen at the office of the La Grande Evening Observer from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. Follow ing the meeting the GT family will drive on to the lake for a week-end feast on some of Ore gon's choicest scenery. Morrow county was overlooked by the Creator in the matter of natural hot water springs for the development of spas, but that does not keep her people from enjoying such facilities. Several car loads of people from this county were at Lehman Sprngs last Sunday, making just as big a splash as the people from oth er communities. This office acknowledges calls from two candidates on the Dem. ocratic ticket during the past week. Austin Flegel, who aspires to unseat Douglas McKay, drop ped in last Thursday right in the "heat of the battle", as it were, and while we had little time to visit with him, it was ' long enough to make us deter-, mined to stick with McKay. On I Tuesday, Howard Latourette, who j would unseat Senator Wayne Morse, dropped in for a social call but the editor was not avail able and we have formed no per sonal opinion about him. They are both estimable gentlemen, but so long as they support the policies advocated by the Admin istration we have but one desire and that is to see them thwarted in their ambitions. And then' there was the hotel manager who received this letter: "Have you suitable accommoda tions where I can put up with my wife?" (You can credit the Reader's Digest with that one.) o Mr. and Mrs. Joe Aiken are vis. iting at the home of Joe's par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Aiken. The youug folk plan on being here about a month, coming the first of the week from their home In Portland. meet Deadline house, primarily, 4-H dairy and beef exhibits. Premium lists for the fair are in the mail this week with copies being sent to all Morrow county farm families on the county agent's mailing list as well as all 4-H members. Townspeople and others are urged to plan ex hibits. They may have a premi um list by calling at the county agent's office upstairs in the bank building. Exhibits of grain, hay, grasses vegetables, fruits and wool have been few in the past and people are urged to prepare an exhibit of these commodities now. With wheat being the major crop in the county and with the fine quality being harvested this year it is hoped that many exhibits will be entered. L. J. Marks, Fossil, will judge all livestock exhibits, with Vic Johnson, Pendleton to judge farm produce, poultry, rabbits and woo.l. Mrs. Elnor Alkio, Pendle ton will again judge 4-H and op en Home Economics exhibits. Judges for horse and school ex hibit classes have not been offi cially announced. Residence Building Continues Despite Material Curbing Curbing of certain materials has not brought construction to a halt in Heppner. New houses are still going up here and there and others are planned to start not later than spring if the war sit uation will permit. Judge J. G. Barratt announced the sale of two more lots in the Ilillside tract, one to Dr. H. S. Huber and one to Elder Spauld ing of the Seventh Day Advent ist church. Elder Spaulding has started construction of a house which will be finished as soon as possilbe while Dr. Huber plans to build in the spring. The lots are on Gilmore street north of the Bradley Fancher property. Frank W. Turner started con struction Monday on a six-room plan house on property lying be tween the John Monahan and W. C. Rosewall residences on North Court street. The site was previ ously filled in to the level of the street and closes up the last gap between the Stanley Minor res idence and the schoor property on the west side of Court street Public Dedication Of Japanese Bomb Site To Be Held Sunday BLY, ORE., August 16 (Special) Public dedication of America's only World War II continental battleground has been set for August 20 at 2 p. m., according to R. R. McCartney, manager of Weyerhaeuser Timber company's branch operation at Klamath Falls. The road -accessible site is on Weyerhaeuser tree farm land northeast of Bly. Six civilians were killed here on May 5, 1945 by the explosion of a grounded bomb carried to this country by one of the numerous Japanese balloons released during the clo sing days of World War II. Five children and Mrs. A. E. Mitchell, wife of a Bly minister, were the victims. Weyerhaeuser is establishing the historic spot as a patriotic shrine, to be known as Mitchell Recreation Area. A native stone monument bearing a bronze pla que with names of the six vic tims, will be dedicated as a per manent memorial. Other develop ments include outdoor stoves, ap propriate signs for the memorial and a protective iron fence ar ound the site of the tragedy and monument. Dr. and Mrs. A. D. McMurdo have been informed by their son Tpd that his reserve unit has been called up for active duty and that he will report early in September. Mrs. John Saager is in Port land this week attending buyers market. She will go to Lebanon to visit relatives before returning home, which will be about the first of September. C. A. Ruggles attended a fire co-ordinators' conference in Sa lem Tuesday. The conference concerned the civil defense set up in the state and was attended by 34 county co-ordinators. Plans Shaping Up For North Morrow Fair at Boardman Community Event To Be Held August 31 -September 1-2 There will be plenty of activity from now on until after Septem ber- 10, what with the Umatilla county fair, the Pendleton Round up, the North Morrow County Fair and the Morrow County Fair and Rodeo running in that order, with the first named in progress this week. Down Boardman way all is ac tivity in prepartaion for the an nual North Morrow County Fair, which will be held at the school grounds Thursday, Friday and Saturday, August 31-September 1 and 2. The fair officials and the community at large are work ing towards a bigger and better show and indications point to just that. Thursday, August 31 is sched uled for entry day, with entries closing at 6 p. m. Friday,, Sep tember 1, will be judging, be ginning with the 4-H and F. F. A. entries. There will be a bicycle parade at 2:30 p. m. Prizes will be awarded for the best decor ated bicycle. Boys and girls are urged to "doll up" their bikes and enter the parade. ' The annual 4-H pig scramble will enliven the program at 10:30 a. m. Saturday. This will be fol lowed by the old time fiddlers' contest, for which prizes will be awarded. There will also be an F. F. A. pig scramble. Ralph Skoubo, member of the Morrow County Fair and Rodeo board, is president of the North Morrow County Fair. Mrs. Arthur Allen is secreatry and Robert Parker, treasurer. Directors are Clyde Tannehill, Don Kennedy, Calvin Allen and Jamie Stalcup. Superintendents are Mrs. Vir ginia Allen, vegetables; Robert Wilson, fruits and melons; Dale Eades, farm crops; Mrs. Suddarth poultry; Paul Slaughter, live stock; Mrs. Claud Coats, domes tic art; Mrs. Roland Black, art; Mrs. I. Skoubo, flowers and plants Mrs. Clyde Tannehill, canned fruits, vegetables and meats; Mrs. Nate Macomber, jellies, jam and pickles; Mrs. Don Kenney, cooked foods; Jamie Stalcup, 4-H. o County Picnic On Court House Lawn Open to Everybody Plans are underway to hold a picnic at the court house park on Saturday, September 9, ac cording to announcement by Judge J. G. Barratt to the cham ber of commerce luncheon group Monday noon. This will be the second annual picnic for all of Morrow county, the first one having been held at the same place in 1949. The picnic was sponsored by the county court and the cham ber of commerce as a fill-in be tween parade time and the start of the afternoon program at the rodeo grounds. A good many people, particularly from the ru ral sections and other towns of the county, attended the affair and had such, an enjoyable time that a general request was made for a similar event this year. If is the hope of the sponsors that it will become a regular part of the fair-rodeo program and that many more people will attend. Those contemplating attend ing the picnic should bring their food and utensils. The sponsors will provide coffee, sugar, cream and ice cream. There will be a program and time for visiting among the guests. While it is termed a county- wide picnic, visitors at the fair and rodeo will not be excluded if they come prepared. It is an effort to give the crowds some thing to occupy their time be tween the parade and program by extending a bit of genuine old western hospitality. o SOROPTIMIST CLUB LISTENS TO FEDERATION REPORTS Fourteen members were as sembled this noon for the week ly luncheon of the Soroptimist club of Heppner. Mrs.- Francis Mitchell, presl dent, and Mrs. O. G. Crawford, program chairman, reported on their trip to Seattle In July. The ladies were delegates from the local club to the Soroptimist In ternational convention held in the northern city the first week In July and brought highly in formative, vivid reports of meet ings and activities attended. k NINE MEASURES ON BALLOT The approval or rejection of nine state measures will be up to voters at the November election. Three of these measures were initiated by the people, four were referred to the people by the 1949 legislature and two that were adopted by the legislature are on the ballot by referendum. Only one of the three bills in itiated by the people calls for heavy bonding. The proposed soldiers' bonus bill would be financed by 20- year general obligation bonds es timated to total $77,000,000, around $4,400,000 a year required for retirement. The legislative re-apportion ment bill to be voted on is the only one of three originally pro posed that secured enough sig natures to get on the ballot. It will be opposed by organized la bor and the grange. The third bill would fori 1,1 iV.e sale of advertised alcoholic bev erages in the state. The four bills the legislature put on the ballot have to do with the heavy spending of state funds. The basic school support bill would increase the allocation now reckoned at $50 per school child to $80. It is estimated the increase, if adopted, would require $1,300,000 the first year and more each year due to the rapid increase in school -age pupils. Another legislative referred bill proposes an increase in the loan fund for war veterans from 3 percent of the assessed valua tion of all taxable property to 4 percent. A third legislative bill provides for state credit for higher educa tion and a fourth would increase the pay of legislators from the present $8 a day for 50 days only to $600 annually or $1200 for the biennium for which house mem bers are elected and $2400 for the four years for which members of the senate are elected. The two laws passed by the legislature on which the people have invoked a referendum are the big hot potatoes of the election. The legislature decided the so- called Dunne act passed by the people was not workable and adopted their own version of what a relief bill should be. The legislators' bill does not please the Dunne followers who put the public welfare question up to the people again. The second referendum bill would authorize the governor to declare daylight saving time when adjoining states adopted such measures. CIVIL DEFENSE ADVANCES Establishment of Oregon's air observation .posts west of the Cascades has virtually been com pleted and the entire state sys tem will have been set up wen ahead of the September 19 dead line, Governor Douglas McKay was advised Friday by Louis E. Starr, director of the state civil defense agency. Organization of the transpor tation agency division is close to completion and communications groups are well on the way. Ham radio operators are ready for any critical situation. A volunteer messenger service is being or ganized. The aid and welfare de partment is compiling an inven tory of buildings -en'! f c;!" suitable for enicrgci-C; ,; and feeding. SUPREME COURT CANDIDATE Senator Allan G. Carson, Salem announced his candidacy this week for justice of the Oregon supreme court to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Justice Harry H. Belt Sunday, August 6. Senator Carson, 52, has a long and notable record as a soldier,, attorney and legislator. He is a combat veteran of both world wars, having vounteered into the army for overseas service when 19 and vounteering in the army again in World War II while a candidate for the senate. He was elected while in the service and re-elected in 1946. Between wars he served a session in the house of representatives. The date of the death of Jus tice Belt was so near the dead line for the filing of candidates that it was impossible for their names to appear on the ballot. The position made vacant must be filled by voters writing the name of a candidate in a blank space that will appear on the No vember ballot.