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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, January 18, 1951
Volume 67, Number 44
Hemnter
ivilian Defense
Setup in County
Needs Volunteers
Serious Damage
May Result From
Lack of Training
Serious damage could result it
enemy planes should pay this
region a visit in the immediate
or near future, announced W. E.
Davis, county civilian defense
coordinator. Davis was explain
ing the local setup to some 25
persons at the court house Wed
nesday evening in a meeting
called to give Heppner and vi
cinity citizens an opportunity to
learn what the civilian defense
program amounts to.
Davis went on to explain that
the damage resulting from a
bombing raid could be greatly
reduced if the entire pouplace is
trained in civilian defense mea
sures.These include in part such
factors as first aid, fire fighting,
salvage, airplane spotting, road
and street repairing in fact, a
long list of things in which indi
viduals and groups can and must
participate if we are to entertain
the hope that we are prepared to
meet any emergency.
Some progress has been made
in setting up the program in
Morrow county and the crying
need is for volunteers, Davis em
phasized. At the present time an
effort is being made, and the in
vitation is out to everybody to
sign up volunteers to man the ob
servation posts at Hardman,
Heppner Lexington and lone.
This is a highly important func
tion and the appeal should meet
with immediate response, the co
oridinator said. Walter Dupuy is
chairman of this activity and
those desiring to serve are re
quested to get in touch with him
at Heppner. Since a simulated
raid is to be staged in the near
future, it is important that ob
servers be ready to make reports
on the blanks prepared for that
purpose.
Many phases of the program
were discussed. The possibility
of caring for evacuees from lar
ger centers elicited the informa
tion that a thorough canvass of
housing facilities would be ne
cessary and it was reported that
considerable had been done in
that respect.
There are too many angles to
civilian defense to discuss in one
brief story, but too much empha
sis cannot be placed upon the ne
cessity for the entire population
participating in the meeting
and signing up for at least one of
the activities. Another meeting
will be called soon and it is
hoped there will be several times
the number that appeared at the
courthouse Wednesday evening.
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Mrs. Ambrose Chapin returned
Sunday from Pendleton where
she has been for some time tak
ing care of her new grandson,
Jeffrey Charles Hodge, and his
mother.
Band Parents Club
Hopes to Promote
More Band Interest
A group of band students' par
ents met at the high school
Monday evening to organize a
band parents club, the purpose
of which will be to further the
interests of the band group.
Robert Collins, instructor, feels
that the parents working togeth
er, and with the director, can do
a really effective job of stim
ulating interest in the band,
both in the band itself and thru
out the community. Such inter
est now seems to be confined
chiefly to the band members,
their parents, the director and
the school administration. This
association would clear the way
for closer contact between indi
vidual Barents and the director.
The advantages of this would
be the discussion of small prob
loms that come ud and to pre
vent misunderstandings that
sometimes arise. Parents may
have an opportunity to have
some part in preparing for con
certs, trips and other band ac
tivlties. If the need arises it will
nrovide a workins srouo to put
on fund raising drives. There is,
however, no immediate need in
this direction.
Officers elected were: W. L
Cox, president; Mrs. Cal Sumner,
vice-president, and Mrs. Wm.
Davis, secretary-treasurer.
Appreciation Day
Crowd Manifests
Interest in Event
A crowd of several hundred
people assembled on Main street
in mid-afternoon Saturday to
participate in the first Apprecia
tion Day event to be staged in
Heppner. The sound wagon was
in operation and with Jack O'
Connor at the mike the object of
the merchants' organization was
explained.
Each Saturday will be Appre
c'ation Day hereafter for a3 long
as the sponsors feel it is worth
while Interest taken by the citi
zens in the first event has led
the sponsoring group to feel that
they have struck the popular
chord. It has been hinted that
the school band has asked the
privilege of participating in the
Saturday afternoon program,
but there is no authentic infor
mation at this time. Be that as
it may, the business houses an
ticipate another big crowd in
town January 20.
County Court To
Name Fair Board
In Near Future
The Morrow county court is
mulling over a list of prospects
to seTecl"a"new county fair board.
All three members of the
old board resigned as of January
1, 1951, although Ralph Skoubo
of Boardman will continue to
serve until a new board is ap
pointed. Judge Garnet Barratt stated
the court has a list of 18 names
to work on and that careful con
sideration is being given to the
matter of selecting three to act as
the new fair board.
O. W. Cutsforth, chairman of
the board the past year, and R.
B. Ferguson sent in written no
tices of their resignation. Since
they are substantially the same
and a copy of Cutsforth's resig
nation is at hand it is published
as self-explanatory. It was pre
sented at the November term of
court and reads as follows:
TO: Morrow County Court
I would like to tender my re
signation as a member of the
Morrow County Fair Board, as of
this date.
I appreciate having had the
opportunity to serve on the Mor
row County Fair Board, and wish
my successor the greatest of luck.
In submitting my resignation,
I am of the opinion that since
the physical plant at the grounds
is developed sufficiently to take
care of the exhibitor's demands,
and since much time and money
have been spent by me in such
development, it is thought that
this position should be passed on
to others in order that they might
make the contribution I have in
the past.
Signed,
O. W. CUTSFORTH
The court after brief delibera
tion accepted the resignations
and Judge Barratt, in behalf of
the court, wrote Cutsforth and
Ferguson as follows:
December 14, 1950
Mr. Orville Cutsforth,
Lexington, Oregon.
Dear Mr. Cutsforth:
This is to acknowledge the re
ceipt of your resignation from
the Morrow County Fair Board as
presented by Mr. Nels Anderson,
Secretary of the Board at our re
gular monthly meeting last
week.
The Morrow County Court,
very reluctantly is accepting
your resignation, effective as of
December 31, 1950. In doing so
every member of the Court is
mindful of the many days of la
bor and mental energy you have
expended in behalf of this county
enterprise. We too realize that
many dollars were contributed
by yourself and family in promo
ting its success. Your reward can.
not be measured by the untold
words of praise that you are en
titled to receive from the citizens
of Morrow county, but the build
ings and grounds will stand as a
monument to your efforts and
the satisfaction of seeing them
used for useful and educational
purposes down through the years
will compensate you far more
than any monetary return.
May we thank your for a job
well done and trust that we may
depend upon your counsel and
advice In the future.
Sincerely yours,
Morrow County Court,
By Garnet Barrett,
Morrow County Judge
Civilian Defense More Serious Matter
Than Most Citizens Willing to Admit
Are we. as citizens of a land where freedom of speech is still
guaranteed by our Constitution; where the press can still speak
its mind; where our comings and goings are not checked by a
gestapo or other type of police, going to have to have a bomb drop
on us out of the belly of a foreign plane before we recognize the
necessity of learning and doing something about civilian de
fense? It looks like that is what will have to happen before we
are jarred out of our lethargy.
This is a deal that calls for an all-out effort We can't leave
all the planning and all the work to a handful of right thinking
citizens. It is every citizen's job men and women alike if . we
face this crisis with some assurance that we will be able to meet
it. Preparedness at home is as essential as preparedness . at . the
front. An unprepared populace will be a frightened, disorganized
populace. A citizenry trained in the many functions required to
successfully cope with disasters that may strike civilian life will
not only lend discomfort to the enemy but provide immeasurable
comfort to our fighting forces.
Too many of us feel that we are remote from attack, either
by land or by air. It is not probable that an enemy would delib
erately waste expensive high explosive bombs to wipe out a small
community, but in the course of a general campaign there is
likely to be an airman who is not too considerate of the cost of
his cargo and would think it great sport to unload on a town
like Heppner, for instance, just to see what havoc he could wreak.
If that feho'.ild happen, what would you do if you bad had no in
struction in first aid, fire fighting, salvaging or any one of the
numerous agencies that go to make up civilian defense? Do you
not think it worth while to learn a little something about these
functions? If so watch for announcements of civilian defense
meetings and be there.
Your residence or business property might not be hit. You
might not suffer direct injury or loss, but if the main part of the
community is seriously damaged or even wiped out and com
munication with the outside is cut off you will be about as we'll
off as the Jewish immigrant who, with his young son was com
ing to America. A storm broke over the Atlantic end the father
kept to his bed. The boy went up on deck and soon came back
with the 'alarming news that the ship was about to sink. The
father was undisturbed by the boy's excitement and calmly re
plied, "Let her go, Ikey, she don't belong to us."
Farmers Asked To
Help Chart New
State Ag Program
Invitations have been Issued
by F. L .Ballard,, Associate Di
rector, Oregon State College Ex
tension Service, to 350 Oregon
farmers asking them to assume
committee responsibilities in
preparation for a state-wide ag
ricultural conference to be held
in March 1952. It will be the
first statewide meeting of the
kind since 1924 when a similar
conference charted such far
reaching developments as the
formation of the state's small
seed industry. Plans for the 1952
conference call for 11 basic com
mittees representing commodity
interests. Each of the commit
tees. Ballard reports, will meet
within 90 days to organize and
discuss their respective fields ol
consideration. Farmers from ev
ery section of the state are being
asked to participate.
Recommendations growing out
of the 1924 conference led to in
creases, for example, in the
state's pear and cherry acreages,
reductions in prune and apple
acreage, the substitution of le
gume for grain hay, and quality
improvement in most of Ore
gon's agricultural commodities
sold out of state. Altogether, 90
per cent of the goals set at the
conference 26 years ago have
been carried out, Ballard says.
lend me a Iwnd''
The March of Dimes campaign
is on in earnest. During the past
week dime cards were given out
to all school children, and many
adults receiving contribution en
velopes have made out their
checks and mailed them in. It is
Mustangs Lose One,
Win One During Week
In an exciting game right to
the finish, Fossil nosed out Hepp
ner by a score of 49-42 at Fossil
Friday night. The Mustangs were
leading 22-20 at ' half-time and
were never out of the race. With
only three minutes to go, Fossil
leading 44-40, started a very el
fective stall whit, wouldn't be
broken up by the Heppner team.
Keith Connor sparked the home
team with 13 points.
Heppner's B team really cut
loose again after losing a close
one to Echo the previous week.
Prior to the Echo game the boys
had seven straight wins. Leading
all the way, they had no trouble
in winding up on the long end of
the score. Jack Sumner was high
point man with 17 points.
Heppner's first win in seven
games came Tuesday evening
whey Lexington was defeated by
a score of 62-29. Heppner led all
j the way from the tip-off to the
final gun. Top scoring honrs for
the Mustangs went to Gary Con
nor and Marion Greer), scoring 14
and 13 points, respectively.
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Mr. and Mrs. Don Campbell of
Lexington are the parents of a
baby girl born January 16 at the
Pioneer Memorial hospital.
Born January 15 at Pioneer
Memorial hospital to Mr. and
Mis. Myron Woodward of Hepp
ner, a baby girl.
the desire of the county director
and all workers to put the cam
paign over by January 31.. They
ask that you make out a gener
ous check and mail it in immedi
ately to the treasurer or hand it
to our district fund chairman,
Shamrocks Garner
Two Games-Make
It 11 Straight
Then Drop Close
One to Moro to
Break Win Streak
Heppner's sharpshooting Sham
rocks won their 10th and 11th
consecutive victories last week
as they romped over lone Thurs
day night 72 to 55 and then
dumped Irrigon Saturday night
to the tune of 67 to 53.
Saturday night's encounter
with Irrigon was a nip and tuck
affair the first three quarters,
with never more than 3 or 4
points separating the two teams.
With eight minutes remaining to
play and behind 45 to 49, the
Shamrocks suddenly came to life
with a brilliant display of pas
sing and shooting as they poured
in 22 points while Irrigon scored
only four.
Big Stan Kemp led all scorers
in both the lone and Irrigon
games, with 21 points in each
game. Scrivner, Heppner guard,
scored 19 against Irrigon while
checking Jones, tall Irrigon cen
ter to 10 points.
Monday night the Shamrocks
suffered their first defeat of the
season on the Grass Valley floor
when Moro, also undefeated,
edged them out 70 to 68. Nine
points behind with only two
minutes to play the Shamrocks
nearly pulled the game out of the
fire with a seven point barrage,
but Moro stalled out the final
seconds with the Shamrocks des
perately trying to get the ball.
Playing without Burns, regular
center, the Shamrocks found
Moro's height advantage too
great with McNabb, six foot six
inch forward, and center Jim
Johnson, six foot four inch ex
Willamette U. star, dominating
the backboards. Johnson was un
stoppable in shooting as he scor
ed 32 points, 11 of them in the
final quarter.
The Shamrocks bounced back
into winning stride again Wed
nesday night as they defeated
Fossil on the local floor 79 to 62.
Hal Whitbeck, Heppner forward,
set a scoring record for the sea
son thus far; in this game he
scored 42 points.
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Coordination Of
School Budgets
Near Realization
The Rural School Board met
with the chairmen of local
school boards and school admin
istrators Thursday, January 11
at the Lexington school. This is
an added step taken by the rur
al board this year in its effort to
develop a rural school budget
cooperatively. The group met for
a discussion of policies and pro
cedures in budget development
for the school year 1951-52.
Salary schedules, personnel
problems, school and janitor
supplies, busses and transporta
tion, were among the chief prob
lems discussed. Tentative agree
ments were reached upon which
the budgets will be built and
which will be given a final ag
reement when the local boards
meet with the Rural school
board at lone, February 15 for
the joint presentation and dis
cussion of all budgets.
Present at the meeting were
Homer Hayes and Earl Goldan
of Irrigon, Mrs. Vera Rietmann
and Henry Osibov of lone, Ad
olphe Majeske and Carl Schwab
of Lexington, Harold Becket and
Leonard Pate of Heppner of the
local boards and Vernon Jones
of Irrigon, Markham Baker of
lone, Alonzo Henderson of Lex
ington, Kenneth Batty of Hard
man and J. J. Nys of Heppner
and Henry Tetz, superintendent
of the Rural Board.
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The condition of Miss Darlene
Wise, who has been dangerously
ill for several days, was reported
slightly improved Wednesday.
She is being cared for in the
hospital where she is a student
nurse and all is being done that
medical science can do. Her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Wise
and uncles, Tom and Pirl How
ell have been with her since the
word first came of her illness.
Nelson Anderson drove to Pas
co early Wednesday morning to
meet his father, N. C. Anderson
Sr. who has come from his home
in North Dakota to visit with his
son and family.
Council Decides
To Meet Terms of
Court St. Project
Discontinuance of
Work Superintendent
Part of Program
Decision to appropriate the ad
ditional $1500 asked by the state
highway commission to defray
the expense of completing the
North Court street project was
reached by the city council Mon
day evening. This was accom
plished at the expense of the
city work superintendent " job
which the council decided to dis
pense with until the end of the
fiscal year, or until such time as
new projects can be planned and
carried out. R. J. Stephens has
served the past year as work su
perintendent, coming to the city
job after completion of the Rural
Electrification Administration of
which he was line construction
superintendent.
Councilman W. C. Collins stat
ed to the group that he believed
the city's affairs should be run
on the same basis as a business
and that when the city's funds
begin to run low the officials
should curb spending to fit the
pocketbook, just as any properly
conducted business should be
conducted. He regretted that
times are such that the city
would have to choose between
dropping the Court street project
to maintain the work superin
tendent, or vice versa. He made
the motion that the position of
work superintendent be dispens
ed with and the council passed
it.
Charles Hodge was present
and asked for a permit to erect
a residence, estimated cost of
which is to be $18,000. The house
will be built on an eminence ad
joining and overlooking his
present residence property and
the Hodge Chevrolet garage.
Much of the preliminary work
has been done, such as building
retaining walls, grading and
pouring foundation walls. The
request was granted.
J. W. Farra asked for and re
ceived a permit to erect a 20x24
foot garage on a lot at the rear
of his building at the corner of
Main and Baltimore. Estimated
cost, $600.
The question of building per
mits brought to mind the matter
of a building inspector and May
or Turner appointed Councilman
Grabill to that post. Also a mo
tion was passed that a resolu
tion be drawn up excluding lots
4 and 5 in block 6 from the fire
zone. These are the lots the
Hodge residence will occupy.
The council voted to issue spe
cial stickers to commercial
trucks and other vehicles mak
ing deliveries in the parking
meter district for $5 per year. It
was suggested that private car
owners may secure yearly park
ing privileges for $50.
A permit was issued to the
Union Oil company, through its
representative, C. H. Turner to
semi bury an 8,000 gallon diesel
oil tank on the company's prop
erty in North Heppner.
Howard Keithley made appli
cation to rent one of the build
ings on the city park property
for storage purposes. This
prompted some discussion about
the lease made to J. O. Turner in
November 1950 for the former
machine shop building and
when it was found that the dis
cussion was leading to no de
cision, Keithley asked the coun
cil to name a price for sale of
the building. This will be done
through the usual procedure of
advertising for bids.
RETURNS TO CALIFORNIA
Thos. W. Allen left Sunday for
Los Angeles after spending sev
eral months here as an employe
of the Gazette Times. He expect
ed to make a few short visits en-
route and hoped to be in the
land of perpetual sunshine by
the end of this week.
TO OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY
The Women's Missionary so
ciety of the Valby Lutheran
church has extended an invita
tion to the public to attend the
observance of its silver anniver
sary at 4:30 p. m. Sunday, Jan
uary 21, at the church. There
will be a program following the
Silver tea.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ruggles
of Moro were week-end visitors
at the home of their son, C. A.
Kuggles, and family.
What's Doing
In The
Legislature
By REP. GILES FRENCH
There are various interpreta
tions of the first legislative
week, most of them written, nat
urally, to indicate the superior
ability at observation of the
writer. Actually the first week
of this 46th legislative assembly
bears a great similarity to other
first weeks. A few more bills
have been introduced in the sen
ate, a few less in the house.
Analysis of committee ap
pointments has not been made
adequately. They are no better
than fair and unless committee
work is better than expected the
session will drag on until .the
sound of bat against ball is
abroad in the land and the grain
crops are in the boot. Other fact
ors than knowledge have been
used in naming chairmen.
There are always those who
feel that the problems of the
state can be expedited if enough
committees are brought together
in a joint meeting. It isn't so, of
course, but the opinion still pre
vails in the minds of some. So
taxation committees and ways
and means committees held a
big meeting Tuesday and every
body was invited. Purpose: to
give information to all alike,
make everyone believe the same
set of figures. Men come from all
over the state so they will have
different ideas.
Opinion growing in minds of
Henry Semon, house ways and
means chairman, and Rudie Wil.
helm, house taxation, that ap
propriations must be iifcli-ia-and
no new taxes levied. If vot
ers can write enough letters or
call on enough legislators to
keep that idea uppermost there
may be some economy this time,
but if administrators get their
mouths in legislative ears it will
be the old story of the ways and
means boys meeting the well
puffed-up demand and the tax
payer meeting a puffed-up tax
statement.
Senator Tom Mahoney, Port
land Democrat, has a bill to re
peal the civil service act. Tom is
usually on the side of labor.
Question: how come? would re
peal permit labor to organize
employees? would it cut out the
silly classifications of the civil
service? is it the gesture of an
Irishman determined to halt
regimentation? is the move one
to help labor get the dues of
9000 state workers? how are the
people affected?
The statement is reliably at
tributed to Cecil Posey, head of
the so-called Oregon Education
Association, that his group was
not going to worry about the ed.
tication committees this time but
would concentrate on the taxa
tion committees. The statement
may indicate a further develop
ment of the long held theory
that the professional "educators'"
in the OEA are interested in get
ting more money for themselves
and that they have a limited int
erest in education. Bills to im
plement the Holy report are
coming in; they will suggest
shanges in the organization of
districts and of the entire state
system which certainly needs it.
Education committee members,
with few exceptions, come from
first class districts and may have
to study to learn of the problems
of residents of the other seven
kinds of school districts. This
year more than ever before
there is an opportunity for the
"educators" to contribute some
thing to legislation. And they
are chasing the dollar.
Resolutions to amend the con
stitution so that initiated bills
would carry a price tag came in
early. Of the purged 22 twelve
are on hand to sign their names
to another resolution asking that
the people be informed about
the cost of projects urged on the
voter. There is also a resolution
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Hermiston Church
To Be Consecrated
Consecration ceremonies for
the St. John's Episcopal church
at Hermiston have been set for
7 o'clock p. m. Sunday , January
21. Bishop Lane W. Barton and
many of the clergy of the dist
rict will be present.
The Rev. Jackson Gilliam, son
of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Gilliam of
Heppner, is vicar of St. John's
and numerous church folk and
friends from Heppner are plan
ning to attend the service.