OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY PUBLIC AUDITORIUM PORTLAND. ORE. Btttt $3.00 Per Year; Single Copies 10c Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, August 31, 1950 Volume 67, Number 24 Saturday Evening Festivities Will Summer Vacation To End in Heppner 11th of September Registration of Upper Classmen Set For Wednesday Vacation days are drawing rapidly to a close for the young er generation. Just one more week of grace before the trek to wards the center of knowledge in Heppner starts, and in all like lihood that extra week would be cancelled were it not for the Morrow County Fair and Rodeo which will hold forth September 6-7-8-9-10. School will open at 8:45 a. m. Monday, September 11 announ ces Supt. Leonard L. Pate, who has submjtted the teaching staff, with himself as superintendent principal and including Mrs. Ma rie Clarey, Math. 1, Phys.. PI. Geometry, Latin 1, Algebra 1, li brarian, visual aids director; Ro bert Collins, music; Francis Cook, agriculture, shop, "general science; James Vanover, assis tant principal, commercial; Mrs. Lucille Juett, homemaking; Rich ard Knight, English, speech; Cla rence Johnson, U. S. history, biol ogy, geography, social economics, assistant coach; Mrs. Phyllis Knight, girls physical education and health, and Harold Whjt beck, boys physical eductaion and health,' coach. Tilman Juett again heads the grade school as principal and eighth grade teacher teacher. The grade staff includes Mrs. Ethel Lyngholm, 7th grade; Al fred Boyer, 6th and 7th; Mrs. Lena Kelly, 6th; Miss Marguerite Glavey, 5th; Mrs. Beryl Pate, 4th; Mrs. Velva Bechdolt, 3rd; Mrs. Beulah Ogletree and Mrs. Betty Estberg, 2nd; Mrs. Edna Turner and Mrs. Margaret Cason first. Mr. Pate says lunches will again be served and will start on the first day of school. The charge this year will be 25 cents. The student body will again be jnsured against accidents while at school through the Oregon Activities association. This will not cover athletic participation, which is covered under another plan. All elementary pupils will be charged one dollar room fee as in the past. This is used to pay for the student's share of insur ance and incidental room activi ties. Pupils in grade five through eight will be charged an additi onal dollar for a towel fee which will be used to launder the tow els used in physical education classes. High school fees will cover the following: Book rentals, $5; typ ing $2; insurance," 65cents; towel fee, $2, and shop ticket, $2. . All hjgh school pupils should register before the opening of school, the superintendent said, and added that there will be no time for this on opening day. To facilitate registration, the office will be open the 6th, 7t hand 8th. Fees are to be paid at lime of registration. He also requests that: all rural pupils who wjll be new on the bus routes or who have moved since last year should contact Mr. Pate. o CLAUDIEN'S TO MOVE Mrs. Marvin Wightman, pro prietor of Claudien's, women's and misses' apparel shop, an nounced this morning that she is moving her stock into the Hynd building recently vacated by the Piper grocery. The stock will be moved this weeke-nd and she hopes to continue in opera tion during the process. The store is at present located In the Faira building at the corner of Main and Baltimore streets. o Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Turner were hosts Wednesday evening of last week for a family dinner party at their home. Inspiration for the event was the visit here of Mr, and Mrs. Loy M. Turner and Mrs. Turner's sister, Mrs. Blanche Thompson. The visitors came from Eugene where they visited Mr. and Mrs. Walter LaDusire and left Thursday morning for Baker to visit Mr. and Mrs. John Turner and relatives of Mrs. Loy Turner before returning to their home in Long Beach, Calif. Deanna Sue is the name given by Mr. and Mrs. Oral Wright to their new daughter born at Riv erskle hospitl in Pendleton Mon day August 28. The Wrights re side at Hermiston. Her Coronation Set I );" ' IrU ,"' . rrf v r . it No one In these parts has to be told Morrow County Fair and Rodeo. She will be crowned Saturday eve ning in fitting coronation ceremonies arranged by the Jaycees. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul ranch girl and she's training herself to become a schoolmarm. Posting Of Generous Prizes Lends Stimulus To Participation in Rodeo By Amateur Cowboys A $250 hand made Snyder saddle awaits the winner of the Morrow county amateur cowboy roping contest at the Morrow County Fair and Rodeo wild west show next week. The saddle is the gift of the Heppner Lumber company. Winner of second place will be awarded a sterl ing silver belt buckle posted by the Rodeo association. In addition to the new spec ial prizes, the Hotel Heppner has again donated a handsome tro phy for the winning team of the flag race, an event that is gain ing in popularity with the Rodeo crowds. The Pendleton Mustang ers captured the trophy last year and will be in the arena com peting again with. Umatilla Sage Riders, second place winners in 1949, Arlington Saddle club and the Heppner Wranglers. A new event designed to add thrills and plenty of spills, per haps will be the wild horse race scheduled for the Saturday and Sunday programs. In this event the cowboys must saddle and ride the unbroken horses without advantage of chutes or snub horses. Usually one or two riders manage to. get their un broken mounts around the track in the right direction but more often the unruly mustangs eith er pile the riders or head the wrong way. They're Coming To The Here you see the royalty ot the Grant County Fair, set for September 21. 22 and 23, at the fair grounds in John Day. Maybe you think they look like a bunch of cowgirls I You might call them that, too, but they'll probably pass your inspection all right. Queen Donna Cummins will reign over the 41st annual fair this year. Shown from left to right are Princess Joy Starrett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Starrett of Dayville; Princess Bene Ingalls, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eric Ingalls of John Day and Queen Donna, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Cummins of Seneca. Princess Darlene Capon, dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. George Capon of Monument and Wanda Tureman, princess daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arleigh Tureman of Prairie City. Darlene Capon was a princess earlier this year, at the Spray Rodeo and Wanda Tureman was queen of the recent Prairie City rodeo. All the girls are accomplished riders and ride their own horses. These girls will be guests of Queen Joan and her Royal Court and ride in the parade of the Morrow County Fair and Rodeo in Heppner September 9. Courtesy Blue Mountain Eagle For Saturday Night that this is Queen Joan I of the Hisler, Joan is a typical modern Harold Erwin, chairman of the Rodeo committee, announced early this week that Vern John son, Condon and Dwight Mad dox, Weiser, Idaho had been cho sen as judges for the 1950 show. Timers will be Roy Barger, Eu gene and Fern Merritt, Toppen ish, Wash.; pick-up men, Pat Fisk, Antelope and Frank John son, Condon. Brownie Brown of Sunnyside, Wash, will do the an nouncing. RCA COWBOYS COMING Indications point to plenty of competition among the profes sional cowboys at the 1950 show. Several well known performers have already signified their in tention of being on hand among them Jack Sanders, King Tex.; Johnny Hawkins, Hotsville, Tex.; Bob Orrson, Bakersfield, Calif.; Bob Elliott, Bend; Howard Milton, Bowleg, Okla.; Pete and Stan Sterza, Numa, McCoin, George Lowe and Verl Hammack, all of Redmond; Harvey Matlock and Vern Terjeson, Pendleton; Art Merritt and Eddie Hoyt from Washington, the latter winner of all around cowboy at the 1949 Rodeo. It is expected that by signing up time numerous others will show up and that the 1950 show will be a real success. The Howard Johnson stock ar rived this week from St. Helens (Continued on page 8) Fair And Rodeo All Saints Church Beneficiary Through Sale of Property The Rev. Elvon L. Tull has re ceived a communication from the Rt. Rev. Lane W. Barton, Bi shop of the Eastern Oregon dio cese, stating that residence pro perty of Mrs. Kathleen F. Hughes in Peruana naa oeen soia ana that residue from the sale will be placed to the credit of All Saints Episcopal church of Hep- oner. Mrs. Hughes made the bequest several years ago, reserving to herself a life tenure for as long as she occupied the property. She executed a deed to Bishop W. P. Remington at the time and later, due to her advanced years, gave up her residence to make her home witn a daugnter. Coming to this locality in 1870 Mrs. Hughes was the first Epis copalian to become a resident of the Heppner area. She was. in strumental in getting a mission set up in Heppner and a church was dedicated in 1900. The build ing was located at East Center and Chase streets and was de stroyed in the flood of 1903 all but the cornerstone which was used for the same purpose in the iounaation of the present struo ture which was completed in 19U4. The church is planning a 20I den anniversary celebration in the fall at, which time proper re cognition will be given the ma ker of this generous gif.t o . SACK LUNCH DAY FOR SOROPTIMIST MEMBERS Fourteen members met at the home of Miss Leta Humphreys for the fifth -Thursday sack lunch meteing of the Soroptimist club of Heppner this noon. The program consisted of four reports on the Oregon Night Aw ards banquet of the Soroptimist International convention held in Seattle July 6. The ladies report ing were Mrs. W. O. George, Mrs. E. E. Gonty, Mrs. Joe Sughes and Mrs. C. C. Dunham. They drove to Seattle for that special event as all the Oregon clubs were re sponsible for the table decora tions for that banquet. Club members had worked for months on the decorations car rying out the theme of wheat or lumber. Other clubs through out the state had used suggestions perunent to the club's locate, portraying industries, agricul ture, stock raising, mining Cra ter Lake, Oregon Trail, Wallowa Lake and the Rose Festival. Several meeting this month have been devoted to reports on some phase of the week-long convention. 1 Miss Humphreys augmented the usual sack lunches With a delicious molded salad and iced tea. Mr. and Mrs Rnv OrwiM, arA children Jimmy and Kathleen, and Marilvn Mil week-end visiting in the Walla Walla valley. While there the young people made arrange ments for entering school. The girls will attend St. Paul's School for Girls and Jimmy will enroll at Whitman college. Kathleen .... ana ivianiyn will leave Septem- oer ana jimmie on the 5th. MrS. F. W. Turnpr io cnonnn the Wepk in Pnrtlanrl i.,iiu u. sister, Mrs. Sophia Barr. Open Fair-Rodeo Week Farmers Launch Campaign to Raise Rain Making Fund $10,000 Subscribed At Court House Gathering Monday Twenty-two Morrow county farmers expressed a willingness to take a little gamble on the weather when they met Monday evening at the court house to open a drive to raise $21,000 as this county's share of the Tri County Weather Research Corpor ation's contract with the Water Resources Development Corpora tion to produce additional preci tation. The 22 grainraisers at the meeting turned in their checks for a total of $9,600 and two more checks received by' Ralph Crum, chairman of the Morrow county committee, Wednesday swelled the total to $10,400. The move is on to double the rainfall at the crucial periods seeding time In the fall and the spring months. Research has been conducted and it has been found that the average fall pre cipitation is 3.2 inches and the period to be covered by the arti ficial nucleation " in the spring averaged 3.6 inches. It Is the con tention of the Water Resources Development Corporation that the precipitation during these periods can be doubled, giving the spring. Such an increase, or 6.4 inches in the fall and 7.2 in maintenance of that amount of moisture during crucial periods would place the wheat yield on a 40-bushel per acre basis rather than the uncertain yields typical 01 the region. After hearing re ports on the WRDC findings and discussing field operations and other points with representatives of the contracting concern, Lee Cox and Mr. Chipman, the farm ers present voted to go ahead with the program, which involv ed, first, the raising of Morrow county's quota. Rather than solicit random subscriptions, it was voted to as sess subscribers at the rate of 30 cents per acre. When this was adopted with a proviso that all present at the meetirtg present their checks it was but a matter pf a few minutes until the afore mentioned sum was raised. In contracting with the Water Resources Development Corpora tion, the tri-county farmers will also get a weather report service which will prove advantageous in the matter of seeding and oth er crop operations. This is a con fidential report compiled from weather records and possibly gathering some material from official weather forecasts. It has been revealed that the timely rain which arrived as wheat was beginning to fill was at least in part due to a rain making program instituted by Leo Horrigan in the Pasco sec tion. It is not definitely known just where the seeding was done but a map prepared by the WR DC indicates that the storm, aug mented by -artificial nucleation, started southeast of Spokane possibly at a point in Idaho, and moved in a southwesterly direc tion over the Pasco area, touch ing grain sections on either side of that region, and extending as far south as Klamath Falls. Mor row county got its full share of the much-needed ""precipitation and a fine crop resulted. Today, August 31, is the date for completing the contract and it is necessary that all of the mo ney be in, Chairman Crum said. If it has not been subscribed in full it will be necessary for the directors to borrow the balance at added cost. "This is the best deal that ever came to this area," he declared. He is urging all who have not paid to do so at once. Checks should be made out to Tri-County Weather Research Corporation and mailed to N. C. Anderson, County Agent, Hepp ner, or to the president, Ralph Crum, at lone. 0 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Baker plan to be in Pendleton Satur day evening to attend the wed ding of Miss Charlotte Helene O'Gara and Frederick Sherrill Merritt. The ceremony will be perrormea at 8 p. m. by Rev Eric 0. Robathan at the Church of the Redeemer. The Bakers will be guests of Mr. and Mrs, George Hyatt. Drcss-up Parade, Coronation Rites, Street Dance Listed Morrow-Gilliam Wheeler District To Send 20 Men Twenty men from Morrow, Gilliam and Wheeler counties have been notified to report for physical examinations Septem ber 1, according to announce ment from the office of Jack Coombs, secretary of the district selective service board at Con don. Combes reports that 30 men have been sent from the dis trict in August. A contingent of 10 men was called last week, of this number seven showed up. Of the three missing, one Is al ready in the service, another has a wife and children and the third is in college. While not submitting names at this time, Combs said that several of the men are from Mor row county, perhaps a majority. He mentioned that notification slips had been sent to men in Boardman, Cecil, Lexington and Heppner. Names of those passing the physical may be published later. Successful candidates will be sent to Fort Ord, Calif, for their basic training. They have three weeks after notification to re port at the basic center. The quota from the tri-county district for September is three.. o " County Fair-Rodeo ' To Get Mention on Greyhound Program The 1950 Morrow County Fair and Rodeo will receive national mention Sunday, September 3 when a program, "Romance of the Highways" featuring Com mander A. W. Scott, will be men tioning state, district and county fairs in California, Arizona New Mexico and Oregon. There was no intimation of ad vertising of this nature until about two weeks ago Louis Ly ons, secretary of the chamber of commerce, received a letter from an executive of the Greyhound Radio stating that the Morrow bounty fair and Rodeo was to be mentioned on the September 3 program and were the enclosed dates correct. Lyons confirmed the dates and a few days later received a release from Com mander Scott giving a list of the fairs to be mentioned. Mrs. John Saaeer returned Wednesday from a combined business and pleasure trip to Portland and Willamette valley points. She spent several days in Lebanon visiting her relatives. OUR DEMOCRACY- LABOR DAY IS EVERYBODY'S DAY When the amewcan people celebrate labor, oik, THcy MX CELEBRATING THEIR. RIGHT TO WORK AND PLAY ACCORDING TO THEIR, OWN BENT-7WF IAIDEPENOENCE OF REGIMENTATION. THI FREEPOM CP AMERICANS, IN THEIR PERSONS AND THEIR JOBS, IS ONE OP THOSE INALIENABLE RIOHTS WHICH THE DECLARATION OP INDEPENDENCE ENUNCIATED, ANO WHICH AU CITIZENS HAVE HSLPEO TO BUI UP, MAINTAIN AND ENJOY. mpwi (Ml fplli iis IT I NOT JUST A HEADLINE, BUT A BASIC FACT K OP AMER.ICAN LIFE, THAT ifeWb' LA30R DAY IS EVERYBODY'S DAY. W) IT It NOT JUST A HEADLINE, BUT A BASIC FACT AK OP AMER.ICAN LIFE, THAT LABOR DAY S EVERYBODY'S DAY, Troubles and dull care will be favor of less serious things. It is the dtae for the annual Dress-up parade and other functions which herald the official open ing of the fair and rodeo week. All citizens are expected to don exhibit a spirit of hospftality western garb of some type and and friendliness characteristic of those bygone days which the modern show attempts to recall for a brief period. And speaking of western garb it must be remembered that the Rodeo associations and the Junior chamber of commerce will have a kangeroo court for the purpose of passing upon the cos tumes of some of the citizens and anyon eattending the festiv ities last year will quickly re call the penalty suffered by some.. The old horse trough will .be in a convenient spot and the water will not be drawn from the 1 hot water faucet, i The parade, an all-out western 'pageant, will be the first event 'on Saturday night's program. This will be followed by the cor onation rites, when Queen Joan I will be crowned and with her princesses presented as the ro yal court of the 1950 Morrow County Fair and Rodeo. Follow ing the coronation there will be 30 or 40 minutes of square dan cing. An effort is being made to get out enough of the oldtime dancers to fill a city block. The nucleus for such a turnout is seen in the more than 150 people who took the series of lessons conducted through the extension department of Oregon State col lege last spring. Climax of the evening's enter tainment will be the queen's dance at the county fair pavil ion. This' dance is always the climax of the pre-rodeo season and it is expected the big floor will be filled to capacity on this occasion. Street decorations are due to be in place by parade time but if not they will be up by the first of the week. Conflicting dates have placed the decorat ing firm in a tight spot but as surance has been given that Hep pner will be taken care of.. o " MASONS TAKE NOTICE Heppner Lodge No. 69, A. F. & A. M. will resume activities Tuesday evening, September 5. Your presence is much desired, announces Harley Anderson, wor shipful master. o Frank W. Turner was a busi ness visitor in John Day Tues day. -byMat Vrf