Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, January 11, 1951
Page 3
Lexington Grange
Officers Installed
At Pomona Meeting
By DELPHA JONES
At Pomona grange in lone Sat
urday several members of the
Lexington Grange were install
ed in their respective offices for
the coming year; and also six
members were obligated in the
Pomona degree including Mr.
and Mrs. Wilbur Steagall, and
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Jones of Lex
ington and Mr. and Mrs. Brown
of Boardman. Installed in office
were Cecil Jones, overseer; Del
pha Jones, lecturer; Hortense
Martin, chaplain; Wilbur Steag
all, steward; Armin Wihlon,
treasurer; Wilma Wihlon, secre
tary; and Marie Steagall, Pomo
na. The next grange meeting
will be Saturday night at the
local hall.
Mr. and Mrs. Jimie Vann are
the parents of a baby son born
in Pioneer Memorial hospital on
Monday night. The young man
weighed 5 pounds and 6 ounces.
She was the former Betty Grif
fon.
The Christian and Congrega
tional Bible schools have been
fortunate to obtain the Rev. Lew
is Wetzel for a full time minis
ter, and they will soon move into
the parsonage. Services will be
held both morning and evening.
Mrs. Bill Mathews underwent
a major surgery in St. Mary's
hospital in Walla Walla Satur
day of last week. Her mother,
Mrs. O. G. Breeding, spent a cou
ple of days in Walla Walla and
Pendleton with Mrs. Mathews
and son Jay.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. McMillan
were LaGrande visitors over the
week-end where Mrs. McMillan
was consulting an eye special
ist. They also visited at the Fred
Bristow's in Cove. Mr. and Mrs.
George Irvin are staying at the
McMillan ranch.
Mr. and Mrs. Hermann Wall-
' The oAmerican Way
EXPENSIVE FREE (?) MEDICINE
By GEORGE PECK
JdvertUtwutU
From where I sit ... Joe Marsh
Friendship Four
Thousand Miles Apart
There is one law of economics
that no Communist, Socialist,
Planned Economist, Bureaucrat,
or starry-eyed dreamer can cir
cumvent. No government ever
has been able to give anything
away from those who had earned
it by application, ingenuity and
thrift. Whenever a government
has rendered any free (?) serv
ice, it has done so at the ex
pense of the honey-bees of the
hive the workers.
The government of the United
States can be no exception to this
fundamental economic law. Even
if one attributes greater wisdom
to those who run our government
than that with which they are
actually endowed, the fact re
mains that they cannot find nor
ever will be able to find any way
to get revenue except by taxing
Never quite got the hang of how
to play chess myself, but I'll say
this for the game it started one
of the strongest friendships I
know of: between Dad Wilson in
our town and a fellow in Sudbury,
England.
The two of them have never met
or seen each other but for eight
or nine years they've been playing
chess by mail together. Dad puz
zles over the Englishman's latest
letter, takes a couple of days to
think it over, and then airmails a
chart of his next move.
Dad always thinks best with a
mellow glass of beer beside his
chessboard. And the fellow in Eng
land writes that he does the same.
"Almost as if we were in the same
room," says Dad contentedly.
From where I sit, you can talk
about diplomacy and foreign pol
icy, but it's often little friendly
things like a game of chess or a
glass of beer that can make for
tolerance and understanding ...
between people of different na
' tions, between folks here at home!
Copyright, 1951, United States Brewers Foundation
ace, John F. McMillan and son
Denny attended the funeral of
James Wallace In Woodburn
last week. Burial was in the Van
Passa cemetery near Woodburn.
He left to mourn his passing in
Lexington two brothers, Her
mann and Walt Wallace.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Steagall
and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bresh
ears were sight seers at McNary
Dam Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Tucker
have purchased the Roger Cmp.
bell home and have moved here
from Heppner. He ismployed at
the Wright garage. She is the
former Dorothy Peck, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Peck.
The executive board meeting
of P.-T. A. was held last Tuesday
evening at the Cyrus Balser
home. After a short business
meeting refreshments were serv
ed. Mrs. Harry Denges is a patient
in Pioneer Memorial hospital.
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A mighty good friend of the family budget, your telephone offers more service than ever at bargain rates.
WHERE EVERY DAY IS BARGAIN DAY
Your telephone gives you more for your money than in 1940
1. When you buy almost any of the things you use
every day, it seems that the prices you pay have just
about doubled in the last ten years. But this pattern of
inflation doesn't hold true with your telephone. For
in spite of higher costs of furnishing telephone serv
icewage levels that have doubled, materials that
have shot up sharply telephone rates have increased
far less than the cost of living.
3. Ia these days, when our nation needs a strong
and efficient telephone service to help speed the job
of defense, that service is available and at bargain
prices. And you can be certain that all of us at Pacific
Telephone will keep right on working to build your
telephone's value still more to make it a still better
servant for you. And for our nation.
2. Every time you use your telephone today, you get
a most unusual bargain.Two ways. Rates have lagged
far behind the increased prices of most other things.
And the amount of telephone service they buy has
practically doubled. Today, on the average, you can be
connected with twice as many telephones as ten years
ago. You can call more of the people you want to call.
More can get in touch with you.
Pacific Telephone
Price increases since 1940
FOOD UP 120
F'"" I COST OF
P.-, . LIVING
i afE RATES UP
V 1 Si ONLY 2 .
i f IS fwmt
IN TERRITORY WE StRVE
Your telephone is one of
today's best bargains
those who have toiled and saved.
It is the people who produce
that make all government func
tions possible.
The "Planned Economists"
have many schemes that at
tempt to skirt around this law.
One is the "Compulsory Health
Insurance" proposal an attempt
to sovietize the practice of medi
cine in Capitalistic America. This
free (?) medicine hocus-pocus is
based on the false assumption
that our American physicians
and hospital authorities have
fallen down on the job. Fortun
ately, most American citizens are
aware that under the present
American system, medical sci
ence has progressed continuous
ly over the years, conquering
dreaded diseases, saving and
prolonging life. They see no rea
son for upsetting such a practi
cal and beneficent system.
Let's take a peek through "The
Iron Curtain." Russia has a nat
ionalized medical and surgical
program. The Russian medical
bureaucrats schedule patients in
the order they apply for treat
ment. A patient needing an em
ergency appendectomy may find
100 applicants ahead of him.
Though most of the 100 may not
be emergency cases, he must
wait his turn. Meanwhile, if his
appendix ruptures, it is no con
cern of the bureaucratic medicos,
unless. . . .
If by chance, however, the pat
ient with the bursting appendix
has a few rubles, it does become
the concern of the Russian doc
tor and he can get himself mov
ed up on the list, perhaps be op
erated upon in time to save his
life. In America we would call
this procedure "political graft."
Russian doctors are not allow
ed to charge for their services
but are permitted to accept gifts
from prospective patients. The
fellow without a few rubles
stands a poor chance of getting
prompt, satisfactory medical at
tention. In America we would
term this "discrimination ag
ainst the underprivileged," dis
crimination against the very
class of citizen the "do-gooder"
proponents of socialized medi
cine pretend it will benefit. Rus
sian patients may not fare so
well but the doctors do all right.
Russian doctors always have
plenty of rubles.
So we see that under a system
of free (?) medical care the
members of an honorable pro
fession are debased and corrupt
ed. Undoubtedly this is the most
serious indictment with which
it can be charged.
Certainly we do not want that
kind of a medical system in Am
erica! Last November 7 the vot
ers indicated that they no longer
believe the political promises of
"something for nothing." Despite
this, however, the "friends of the
down -trodden" have declared
their intention to continue their
efforts to socialize our medical
fraternity.
All of us have had enough ex
perience with bureaucracy to
know how obnoxious it is. We
also know that government man.
agement of anything is never as
efficient as private manage-
Car Maker Boosts Record to 25 Million
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A giant cake lettered with the production milestones
of the company marked Chevrolet's observance of its
twenty-fifth millionth automobile. Above, T. H. Keating,
genera! manager of the division, watches his top assistants
light the candles (1. to r.) E. W. Ivey, administrative
assistant to Keating; W. J. Scott, general manufacturing
manager; W. E. Fish, general sales manager, and E. H.
Kelley, chief engineer. Registering an achievement with
out precedent in the history of the auto Industry, Cher
rolet built Its 23rd millionth car on January 11, its 24th
millionth June 30 and the 25th millionth December 22.
Ti inst milestone was reached with new 1951 models.
Lt. Col. Burchell With
Seventh Army HQ
In Western Germany
HEIDELBERG, GERMANY
Lieutenant Colonel Edward L.
Burchell of Heppner, has been
assigned to headquarters of the
recently reactivated U. S. Sev
enth Army at Stuttgart, in the
U. S. Zone of Germany.
Burchell, whose new assign
ment will be with the transporta
tion division at Seventh Army
headquarters, was formerly com
manding officer of a transpor
tation truck company on Heidel
berg Military Post.
His mother, Mrs. Mae Burch
ell, resides at 2864 Northwest Ra
leigh street, Portland. The colon
el, who attended high school in
Lexington, Oregon, earned his
bachelor of science degree from
Oregon State college, Corvallis,
in 1938. He received a reserve
commission in the Army through
his enrollment In the Reservp
officers training corps white in
college. He entered the Army in
May, 1938 and during World War
II he served as commanding of
ficer of an amphibious engineer
boat battalion in the South Pac
ific theater. Among the decora
tions Burchell holds are the
Bronze Star and the South Pacif
ic theater ribbon with five bat
tie stars.
Prior to his arrival in the Euro
pean Command in September
of last year, Burchell was a stu
dent at the Command and Gen
eral Staff College Fort Leven-
worth, Kansas.
With the colonel in Germany
are his wife and three children:
Larrv. 12: Gale. 10: and Barbara
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Katherine M. Healy; her mother,
Mrs. Margaret Healy resides in
Heppner, Oregon.
ment. It logically follows that
government s sticking Its nose
into medical affairs would hin
der, if not absolutely destroy, an
orderly and efficient medical
system. Even rich America just
cannot afford the luxury (?) of
free (?) medicine.
THE AMERICAN WAY
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Mrs. J. W. Routson of Weiser
and Mrs. Emma Evans of Sea
side, who spent the Christmas
holidays here with their child
ren, returned the last of the week
to their respective homes.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Brown and
sons and Mrs. Chris Brown were
week-end visitors in Portland.
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A psychologist for children
says spanking misses its aim. It
didn't when we were a lad!
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