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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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..
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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.
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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..
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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.
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Frank W. Turner was a busi
ness visitor in John Day Tues
day. -byMat
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