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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.
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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
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.