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OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY
PUBLIC AUDITORIUM
PORTLAND, ORE.
$3.00 Per Year; Single Copies 10c
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, November 9, 1950
Volume 67, Number 34
4-H Achievement
Banquet Attracts
Large Gathering
Over 200 Enjoy
Places Set At
County Pavilion
More than 200 people gathered
around the festive board at the
4-H club annual achievement
banquet and program at the
county fair pavilion Friday eve
ning and after partaking of the
potluck dinner witnessed the
presentation of awards to 4-H
clubbers and their leaders.
In the absence of Nelson An
derson who was called east by
the illness of his mother, Mrs.
Maude Caswell, county home de
monstration agent, presided and
made the regular presentations.
Merle Becket made the presenta
tions in behalf of the First Na
tional bank.
First year members complet
ing their projects (:C1 means
cooking I, CI, clothing I) Maurine
Groves CI; Carole Anderson CI,
sheep; Helen Graham CI, Knit
ting I; Janice Martin CI; Donna
Robinson CI II, C II; Peggy Allen
CI 1; Anna Belle Coleman CI I;
Bonnie Crum CI I; Sally Cropp,
CI I; Merna Ober CI I; Juliana
Rietmann CI I; Clara Ann Swales
CI I; Mildred Bristow CI I; Mil
dred Seehafer CI I; Sue Coleman
CI I; Marilyn Pettyjohn CI; Lou.
ise Botts CI; Billie Seehafer CI;
Alecia Swales CI; Sharon Cuts
forth, CI; Donna Graves CI; An
na Marie Graham CI; Mary Ruth
Green Kn 1, child care; Clarice
Hastings Kn I, child care; Joan
Keithley Kn I; Kay Valentine Kn
I; Judy Thompson Kn I; Francine
Francis CI I; Sandra Whillock CI
I; Roberta Hannan CI I; Donna
Elliott CI I Judy Barger CI I; De
lores Easter CI I; Ida Sue Strat
ton CI I; Meredith Thomson CI I;
Jack Monagle, sheep Tom Currin,
swine; Terry Thompson, beef;
Vern Nolan, dairy; Dick Ruhl,
beef; Loy Keene, sheep, tractor
maintenance; John Howton, beef;
Ellis Ball, rabbits; Wayne Ball,
poultry; Ronald McCabe, rabbits;
Jerry Wentworth, poultry; Paul
Wentworth, rabbits; Gerry White,
poultry.
(Balance of awards will be pub
lished next wek).
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Hospitalized Vets
To Receive Scrip
Books For Christmas
Hospitalized veterans in the
Blue Mountain Council jurisdic
tion will receive $2 scrip books
enclosed in Christmas cards as
their Christmas gifts from the
people of the area, announces
Mrs. Ralph Thompson, Morrow
county chairman for the council.
This was decided upon at a re
cent meeting of th ecouncil when
it was also decided to discontinue
the practice of seeking personal
gifts for each patient. The money
will be used by the patients in
making phone calls home during
the holidays. This is done thru
the Red Cross with no tax on
calls.
Wreaths are wanted for the
Morrow county ward, Mrs.
Thompson wishes to remind the
public. These will be handled
through the Heppner Flower Shop
at $2.50 each.
Morrow county was asked for
flowers for the chapel for two
Sundays at $5 for each service.
The flowers are given in mem
ory of someone, the chaplain
stating who, as well as giving
the flowers afterwards to serious
ill patients.
A request for used bedside ra
dios has been made. Send along
what you have, the radio repair
classes will condition them.
Sheldon Bergeson, field direc
tor at North Richland, has asked
for mystery stories and comic
books for soldiers stationed there.
The Heppner office of the Pacific
Power & Light company has of.
fered to receive the radios, small
books and comics.
MRS. RODGERS PRESENTS
PAPER ON PEACE AT
SOROPTIMIST CLUB MEETING
In recognition of Armistice Day
November 11, Mrs. Lucy Rodgers
presented a fine paper on "Peace"
at the regular meting of the Sor.
optimist Club of Heppner this
noon. Mrs. Rodgers told briefly
of various international peace
conferences in the 1840's-50's;
the League of Nations under
Woodrow Wilson's regime, and
the United Nations of the pre
sent era. To quote from her re
port: "No one who makes a fair
examination of the united Na
tions achievements through the
five years since the charter was
ratified can deny that it is our
best hope for peace through free
dom."
While the members stood with
bowed heads, Mrs. Rodgers clos
ed her program by reading a
prayer for peace,
Lost Hunter Down
To Last Cigarette
As Rescuers Arrive
Bob Robinson, Portland hunter
who spent three and1 a half days
In the woods without food or
shelter last week, was down to
his last cigarette when Officers
Bill Labhart and Carl McDaniel
found him on Potamus creek
about one mile from the John
Day river. That was noon Thurs
day and he had been out since
Monday morning. Cigarettes were
not the only things on which he
was running low. He had two
shells and three matches left.
Robinson was well dressed, the
officers reported, a fact that en
abled him to withstand the or
deal with no apparent ill effects
to his health.
Fifty years old, Robinson is a
veteran of the U. S. Coast Guard.
He is familiar with sea lanes but
apparently has little knowledge
of the woods. He told officers that
he had crossed two roads and
found a third one. He went down
one of the roads only to come to
a dead end, which probably led
him to believe that none of them
would take him "out of the
woods."
After searching parties had
been out two days, McDaniel, ex
perienced woodsman, decided
that Robinson would be found on
the Potamus. With Officer Lab
hart, he went to the mouttrof Big
Potamus and they started up
stream. When they had gone a
short distance McDaniel heard a
shot which he recognized as com
ing from a rifle of the type used
by Robinson. Waiting about 30
seconds, McDaniel fired his rifle.
The officers were about 15 min
utes away from Robinson. When
they came upon him he was up
on the hillside where he said he
had fired at a bird with the hope
of getting something to eat. That
was the shot McDaniel heard.
Local hunters and tanchers
were joined in the search by Ro
binson's son and other relatives
from Portland. Harley Anderson
returned home Thursday after
noon, dog-tired after cooking for
the crew of searchers, and others
weary searchers straggled in
throughout the afternoon and
evening.
McDaniel, who admits to being
lost many times in the moun
tains and at the same time be
lieves he has found more lost
people than any other one person
in these parts, says he is going
to get a bloodhound pup and
train it for the purpose of run
ning down stray humans in the
forest vastness.
Hermiston Graders
Overrun Heppner
At Rodeo Grounds
;: Mollahan's Last Minute TD
Saves Local Hopefuls From
Humiliation of Goose Egg
A never -say-die spirit on the
part of a courageous little team
which stayed right in the game
every minute although outplay
ed most of the way, saved the
eighth grade team of the Hepp
ner school from registering a
"goose egg" at Rodeo Field Sat
urday afternoon. The Hermiston
graders provided the competition
and had rolled up an imposing
score of 35-0 right up to about
the last two minutes of play when
the quarterback began calling
for line smashes by Larry Molla.
han, rangy back. Mollahan car
ried the ball from down near
midfield on a series of hard rush
es that saw him making first
downs enough to put him within
reach of pay dirt and then one
more run put him over. Jensen
made the conversion.
It was a case of a plucky little
team battling a little heavier and
speedier aggregation. Hermiston
crossed the goal line and con
verted five times before Mollahan
got all hepped up but wasn't go
ing so fast in the final quarter.
A serious accident marred the
game about two plays before the
end of the second quarter. A Her
miston player collided with Del
bert Piper, third son of Mr. and
Mrs. Rufus Piper, knocking him
to the ground. Piper could not get
up and his teammates carried
him to the sideline and examina
tion by a physician revealed that
his leg was broken. The ambu
lance was called and the unfor
tunate lad was taken to the hos
pitl. a
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EMERY SETTLES INJURED
IN CAR CRASH TODAY
Emery Settles, proprietor of the
Settles Electric company, receiv
ed serious back injuries this
morning when his car was struck
by another motor vehicle in front
of the Hodge Chevrolet company
garage.
The car also was badly damaged.
Moro Scores One
Point Victory in
Friday's Contest
The Heppner Mustangs were
beaten by Moro Friday in a real
thriller. The game was played at
Moro under ideal conditions.
In the first half, Moro domin
ated the play and scored two
touchdowns, one in each quarter.
The first one was a sensational
off tackle run of 70 yards and the
second on an end sweeps from
four yards out. The score at half
time was 13-0.
In the second half, Heppner
came to life and quickly drove to
a touchdown, Sumner scoring on
a line plunge. From then on
Heppner showed plenty of fire
but couldn't cross the goal line
for pay dirt.
In the fourth quarter the score
stood at 13-6 with 30 seconds re
maining in the game, when Gary
Connor took a long pass from
Melvin Piper in the end zone to
make the score 13-12. The try for
the extra point on a buck over
guard failed. The game ended
with the score 13-12 in favor of
Moro.
The Mustangs have dropped to
a second place tie with Moro be
cause of the loss. Maupin is
champion of district five.
Saturday, Armistice day, at
2:15 on the Rodeo field, Heppner
will play their traditional rivals,
the Bulldogs from Hermiston
high. The team is in fine shape
and will, try to take last week's
defeat out on the Bulldogs.
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Brains Replace
Brawn In Re-laying
Of Railway Steel
About one-eighth of a mile of
heavy steel remained to be laid
on the Heppner branch of the
Union Pacific Friday morning
when Agent Floyd Tolleson call,
ed a representative of the Ga
zette Times and told him to hus
tle down there if he wanted to
see how track laying is done in
the modern manner. That was all
the invitation required and the
reporter was soon on the scene.
There is altogether too much
to write about and the subject
can't be covered at this writing
but it was noted that brains have
contrived to relieve brawn by at
least 50 per cent since the earlier
days of railroading with regard
to track laying. The human ele
ment has been removed as far as
it has been practical to do so and
machinery does the work quickly
and precisely.
To make removing the old rails
a simple and prompt matter, a
machine has been devised for
jerking two spikes up at a time,
one on either side of the rail. On
ly in cases of bent or off-angle
spikes is it necessary to use the
hand method. After the new rails
are down and the sledge wielders
have started the spikes a ma
chine comes along and sets them
firmly in the tie.
A man with an acetylene torch
cuts the rails to the right length
less than full length piece is
needed. There is a scarafier built
on the plan of a floor Sander
which smooths off the ties after
the light rails are removed, mak.
ing a smooth base for the fish
plates' that will hold the new
rails. Then along comes the me
chanical crane under its own
power and picks up a rail and
lays it where it belongs, under
the guidance of a young Navaho
who supervises this particular
piece of work. Another Navaho
boy sees that the rail is properly
joined with the one already
down. He carries a piece of wood
about one-fourth of an inch thick
and Just as the rail snaps into
place he shoves the stick between
the joints to provide ample ex
pansion space which prevents the
rails from buckling.
A crew of 100 men was employ
ed in the work on the branch.
This was more than needed but
there was no other work right at
the time and the company keeps
the crew intact. One of the UP's
best track laying superintend
ents, Frank Shea from Pocatello,
supervised the local job.
In charge of the construction
train is Bill Young, son of Grover
Young, former conductor on the
branch line and working on the
main line.
The track laying work was
wound up here about noon Fri
day and the crew was taken out
by th freight that afternoon. The
maintenance crew operating out
of Arlington will complete the
work of relaying the yards as the
steel arrives.
The old rails have been bought
ARMISTICE DAY PROGRAM
10:30 a. M.-l:30 p. m. Social gathering. Legionnaires
and wives at Legion hall
1:45 p. m. Parade from Tum-A-Lum to Rodeo Field,
Legionnaires escorted by High School Band
2:15 p. m. Football game, Hermiston vs. Heppner
5:30-6:30 Banquet at Legion hall to football teams
6:30-7:3$ Legion Banquet, C. J. D. Bauman, Master of
Ceremonies. Songs by Comrade Oliver Creswick;
Reading by Mrs. William Labhart; introduction of
distinguished guests by Master of Ceremonies;
Speker of evening. Comrade Dean Reitmeyer, Com.
mander of District No. 6.
Public dance following banquet
Full Day Observance of First Armistice Signing
Outlined By Heppner Legion For Saturday
Thirty years ago, when the se
cond annual observance was held
the date happened to be on
Thursday. That was nothing
alarming except to the Gazette
Times force, the date being the
newspaper's publication day. It
was not a good time to close up
so far as the GT was concerned
but all Tight for the rest of the
business houses of the town. This
year the 11th comes on Saturday.
That does not affect the newspa
per office but it means something
to the other businesses to close
up on the big day of the week.
Nevertheless, most of the places
of business will close either all
day or in the afternoon to coop
erate with the American Legion
in observance of Armistice day.
A glance at the program above
will give the reader the informa
tion desired. Legionnaires will
know what is expected of them
WAGE LEVELING COMPLETED
A general wage increase for
practically all state employees
was made by the state board of
control in winding up their func
tions Sunday morning.
A total of 8200,417.68 was ap
propriated leaving $550,184.58 in
the emergency fund. A temporary
$10 a month increase will show
on November paychecks and con
tinue through February when the
legislature will take over the pro
blem of providing salaries for
state employes that will meet
those offered by private industry.
Other salary adjustments include
workers in higher brackets and
employees in self-sustaining in
stitutions.
FOREST FIRES FEW
The state forestry department
reckons the "fire year" for Oregon
ends October 15. This year it was
right on schedule to the dav.
There was less fire damage and
fewer fires than in 1949. This oc
curred in spite of severe fire con
ditions and low rainfall during
most oi tne lire season.
There were 1009 fires this year.
compared with 1398 for the same
period last year. There were 775
man-caused fires this year and
1023 last year. Lightning caused
234 fires this year and 375 last
year. There was a total of 19,477
acres burned this year comDared
with 39,702 in 1949.
STATE POLICE BUSY
The state police had a busy Oc
tober. Besides making 4045 ar
rests for various law violations,
they extinguished 31 fires, inves
tigated 469 accidents, rendered
assistance in 644 cases of distress
or accidents with first aid in 26
cases, removed 316 highway ob
structions, weignea 2758 trucks
(found few overloads), made 519
livestock investigations, recover
ed stolen vehicles valued at $42.-
475, and functioned in 4647 other
capacities.
Forgery, larceny, burglary and
most other crimes follow a pat
tern of the economy of the coun
try or of the seasons of the year
but from the reports for 1950 it
seems that drunken drivers keep
increasing.
In January of this year there
were 46 convictions with fines of
up for scrap and will be repro
cessed into something else.
Motion pictures of the track
laying crew at work were taken
by Dr. A. D. McMurdo.
County Agent N. C. Anderson
was called to the home of his
parents in North Dakota Thurs
day morning in respo'nse to a
message that his mother was
gravely ill. He took a plane from
Pendleton. Tuesday evening, Mr
and Mrs. John Graves took Mrs.
Anderson to Pasco where she en
trained for Minneapolis. The fam
ily had gone with the expectation
that Mrs. Anderson Sr. would un
dergo surgical treatment.
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and the public will find plenty of
entertainment in the big features
of the day the football game be
tween the Hermiston high school
Bulldogs and the Heppner Mus
tangs. It will be a contest be
tween two good teams, one re
presenting the "B" circuit, the
other the "A". Hermiston, with a
much larger supply of material
to draw from, has been carrying
off the honors in recent years and
an upset is not looked for here
Saturday.
The starting whistle will toot
at 2:15 p. m. following the par
ade to the football field.
Another activity of public in
terest will be the dance at the
Legion hall following the annual
banquet. Music will be by the
Serenaders. The Legion and aux
iliary will serve dinner at 5:30
to the football teams, reserving
the hour 6:30-7:30 for the Legion
banquet and program.
CALF SALE BRINGS
AVERAGE OF 30 CENTS
The calf sale held at the Hepp
ner Sales Yard Saturday after
noon for the benefit of the county
fair pavilion brought an average
of 30 cents per pound.
The total results have not been
released but according to some
who attended, the indebtedness
will be substantially reduced as
a result of the sale.
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SCHAFFELD-ADAMS VOWS
TO BE TAKEN NOVEMBER 22
Invitations uprp mailpH thio
week for the marriage of Miss
betty jane Adams, daughter of
Mrs. Ethel Adams of Hennnpr
and Mr. Ted JoseDh Schaffeld nf
Vale. The ceremony will be per
formed on November 22.
Miss Adams is a member of
the high school faculty at Vale,
where she is teaching her sernnH
year, and Mr. Schaffeld is a far
mer on me vaie project.
$6775. For the month of May there
were 79 convictions with fines of
$12,376. Last month there were 94
convictions with fines of $11,320.
PLAN FOR 1952 ELECTION
The first political announce
ment of the next general election
November 8, 1952. was made iust
after an emergency Sunday morn
ing meeting or the emergency
board at the capitol this week.
Senate President Wm. Walsh.
chairman of the emergency board
congratulated venerbale Senator
Dean Walker on the sharp publi.
city he used in his campaign for
reelection and asked the Polk
county senator if he would act as
his campaign manager come next
election.
"Why I would be delighted to
certainly, Senator Walsh," em
oted Senator Walker.
That will make it all very
nice, Senator," pondered Senator
Walsh, "I was thinking of retir
ing from public activities any-
SHORTCUT REPORTS
ReDorts of automohile arri.
dents may now be made at the
neia omce or tne state motor ve
hicle department, Secretary of
State Earl T. Newbry announced
Friday.
Newbrv has instructed the tier.
sonnel of the field offices to as
sist motorists in making out re
ports and explain the require
ments or tne state iinancial re
sponsibility law.
Reports may be filed by motor,
ists involved in accidents at the
field offices between 9 a. m. and
5 p, m. Monday thru Friday and
between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Sat
urdays. WILL BAILEY RESIGN?
Reports have been prevalent
around the capitol for several
weeks that Supreme Court Justice
J. O. Bailey would resign shortly
after election and that Circuit
Judge Walter Tooze of Multnom
ah county would be appointed by
Governor McKay as his successor.
Bailey was not a candidate for
reelection. His current term ex
pires January 1. 1951. Tooze was
elected at the May primary elec
tion to succeed Bailey.
Factory Crew At
Work on New Unit
For Heppner Mill
It has always been a maxim
or something that "you can't
keep a good man down," and
that's the case with Orville Smith
manager of the Heppner Lumber
company. Members of the factory
crew were still clearing away
burning girders and other debris
from the big fire last week while
"Smithy" was busy on the phone
lining up a new plant.
By the first of this week all
debris was cleared from the lo
cation of the former plant, sal
vaged material loaded onto gon
dola cars and shipped out. The
ground was immediately staked
off for a new 130x330 foot build
ing which will house planing
mill and factory equipment. The
arched roof of the huge building
will be so spanned that there will
be no upright posts to interfere
with the working space on the
floor. And the floor will be of
concrete. No more underdrafts to
contend with, says Smith, who is
experiencing some difficulty in
obtaining building materials. But
they will be obtained, and you
can lay to that.
Responsibility For
Hunting Hunters
Should Be Settled
Responsibility for hunting lost
hunters should rest with the state
game commission, in the opinion
of Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman. The
county has no funds and it cer
tainly should not devolve upon
the search parties to pay their
own expenses, Bauman declared,
in asking the chamber of com
merce for an opinion on the
matter.
The sheriff went on to say that
since the game commission re
ceives the funds from the sale of
licenses to hunters it should like.
wise acceDt resDonsibilitv in pas
es of licensed hunters getting
lost This opinion was concurred
in by others present but since the
luncheon hour was about up no
action was taken.
Dr. A. D. McMurdo agreed with
the sheriff relative to lost hunt
ers and also advocated that
ranchers be remunerated for the
loss of livestock resultincr from
trigger-happy hunters' mistakes.
Last minute pre-election dis
cussions on two measures wpre
offered by P. W. Mahoney on the
liquor advertising measure and
Judge Garnet Barratt on the Old
Age Pension law.
W. H. Wilhite. new arrival In
Heppner, was introduced to the
club. He is successor to Paul Mc
Coy as pharmacist at the Hum-
pnreys Drug company.
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Farmers Signing Up
ror dtnp Cropping
In Heppner SC Dist.
Strio croDDine was established
on 624 acres of land in the Hepp
ner boil Conservation district dur
ing the past month, according tn
the last progress report released
by the district supervisors. A to
tal of 544 acres was stri-croDrjed
on the Kenneth Peck ranch at
Lexington and the remainder on
the Raymond French ranch on
Big Butter creek.
Guide lines for contour seed
ing, covering 1,528 acres, were
marked out on the Sid Zinter
farm at Eiehtmile and the fan.
kin-Bunch and Paul Brown ran
ches at Heppner with the new
contour-liner recently purchased
by the district. Bv attaching the
contour-liner to a jeep or tractor
any farmer may easily run off
corrtour lines with it, the super
visee pointed out.
Engineering surveys for land
leveling were completed on the
Hynd Brothers and John Krebs
ranches at Cecil and the Terrel
Benge and Delbert Emert raches
at lone. This totals about 110
acres which will be seeded for
irrigated hay and pasture land.
Two contractors, Crum Brothers
of lone and Dick Meador, Hepp
ner, are working on these jobs.
Harold Stevens of Harriman pa.
tablished 1.3 miles of diversion
ditches to carry run-off water
safely from steeper slopes.
New rarm plans were signed
this month for Mankin-Buneh.
888 acres; Ralph Beamer and
Tom Michos. 1.762 acres: Harold
Stevens, 439 acres; Claud and
Tom Huston, 2,645 acres and Gary
Tullis, 1,600 acres.
New applications for farm
plans were submitted by Jasper
Myers, McElligott Brothers, Krebs
Brothers, Hynd Brothers, Ralph
Taylor, J. B. Gow, G. B. Magill,
B. H. Peck-Scherzinger, Robert
McLaughlin, F. W. Wilkinson
and J. E. LeTra.ce.
Republicans Hold
Substantial Lead
In County Voting
Morse and McKay
Lead Ticket By
Heavy Majorities
Morrow county was not to be
outdone by the rest of the state
and the nation in Tuesday's vot
ing and rolled up substantial
Republican majorities right down
the line from U. S. Senator to
Justice of the ePace. County of
fices were on a non-competitive
basis this year, but the voters
cast ballots for the officials as a
compliment.
There was a good turnout of -voters
regardless of a generous
rain during the latter part of the
day. Voting started promptly
with the opening of the polls
here in Heppner and by closing
time a total of 556 votes had been
cast in North and South Heppner
precincts.
Counting was done promptly
and returns were all in by open
ing time at the county clerk's of
fice Wednesday morning. A check
of the returns gave the following
results in the county:
U. S. Senator: Morse 1044; Lat
ourette 313; Talbert 26.
Representative in Congress:
Stockman 908; Bull 501.
Governor: McKay 1072; Flegel
362.
Labor Commissioner: Klmsey
736; Morgap 532.
State Senator; Ellis 865; MeEl.
rath 486.
Representative 22nd district:
Peterson 1184; French 769.
District Attorney: Fancher 1191.
Commissioner: Thompson 1297.
Treasurer: Lucy E. Rodgers
1146.
Assessor: W. O. Dix 1173.
Justice of the Peace. J. O. Hager
460.
State Measures:
Legislators' salaries: Yes 664;
No 503.
Credit loan: Yes 612; No 605.
Veterans fund: Yes 700; No 485.
School support: Yes 591; No 650
Old Age Welfare: Yes 856; No
410.
Standard time: Yes 872; No 423.
Bonus for Veterans: Yes 595;
No 596.
Reapportionment: Yes 595: No
427.
Liquor advertising: Yes 325;
No 1005.
TURNER AGAIN MAYOR
J. O. Turner drew a total of 386
votes in his bid for return to of
fice of mayor after a lapse of
rour years. The council over
which he will preside after Jan
uary 1 will include two incum
bents, W. C. Rosewall and Ed
mond Gonty, and the following
new faces: W. C. Collins. Robert
Grabill and Jack Van Winkle for
the four year term and John Saa-
ger for the two-year term. He
succeeds W. C. Cox who was ap.
pointed two years ago to fill the
position vacated by Howard
Keithley. Cox was defeated in his
bid for the four-year term.
Other members of the city gov
ernment include Mrs. W. O. Dix,
recorder and La Verne Van Mar
ter, treasurer. "
Lewiston To Host
Winter Meeting Of
Waterways Assn.
The 17th annual meeting of the
Inland Empire Waterways asso
ciation will be held in Lewiston,
Ida. November 30-December 1, ac.
cording to word received here by
Judge Garnet Barratt, regional
county vice president of the as
sociation for Morrow county.
The announcement came from
Herbert G. West of Walla Walla,
executive vice president for the
organization, who gave the im
portance of the : -wer Snake river
dams at this time as the princi
pal teason for setting the con
vention at Lewiston.
'This year's convention," said
West, "should prove to be the
most important ever held due to
the fact that the Pacific North
west is facing a serious power
deficiency even without national
defense requirements and the ne
cessity of the Pacific Northwest
reaching complete agreement on
our program before Congress con
venes next year.
It is hoped that Secretary of
the Interior Oscar Chapman and
General Lewis A. Pick, Chief,
Corps of Engineers, both of
Washington, D. C, will be pre
set to deliver the principal ad
dresses of the convention.