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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, March-22, 1951 Page3 Radio Operator Electrocuted at Boardman Airbase Sgt. Homer L. Akerson, air force radio operator at the Boardman bombing range was electrocuted Friday while sending a message to the Falrchild air base near Spokane. Officials have not de termined how Sgt. Akerson met his death. He was sending a message that the windstorm had broken his radio antennae. He was 19 years old and from Rip ley, Tenn. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon for Roger Due len with Miss Wanda Needles officiating at the Community church. Pallbearers were Allen Ely, Larry Thorpe, Franklin Ball The Churches of HeDDner Open Their Doors to you on You will be welcomed . . Come worship with your friejids and neighbors. and Franklin Delano. Mrs. Na than Thorpe and Mrs. John Part low sang two songs, "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" and "Safe in the Arms of Jesus." Baby Roger Deulen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Deulen, was born January 13, 1951 and died March 16, 1951. Besides his parents he leaves two sisters, RoseMary and Cora, and a brother Richard, hte grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kunze, and other relatives.. Out of town relatives attending the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Flock of Portland, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Ralston, Hermiston, and Mrs. Mario Reghetto, Portland Mrs. Carrie Crane of Missoula, Mont, arrived this week at the home of her granddaughter, Mrs. Frank Kunze, and will make an extended stay. Guests Tuesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cole were Mrs. Cole's nephew, Bill Whit ford, and Harold Geiss of Sheri dan, and Marion Whitford of Bixby, S. D. Mrs. W. E. Garner, Mrs. Chas. Anderegg and Mrs. Jack Mulligan motored to Lexington March 14 where they attended the P-TA county council. Officers elected for the coming year were: Presi dent, Mrs. Garner, Boardman; vice president, Mrs. Cecil Jones, Lexington; secretary treasurer, Mrs. Howard Califf, Irrigon, and advisers, Mr. Golden, Irrigon and Mr. Osibov, lone. Leroy Harwood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Harwood left Saturday for Denver where he will enter air corps intelligence school. He was home on a 10-day furlough. Mrs. Fred Smith left Thursday for a 10-day visit with relatives and friends in Tacoma. Mr. and Mm. Edd Skoubo have moved to their new home, in the east end, recently purchased from Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stalcup. The Stalcups moved to their farm near Palouse, Wash. Mrs. Elvin Ely and dauehter HEPPNER "PONIES" NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT Notice is hereby given that the fPU Ilinnnni' "Pirtlnt' n 1 1 1 f t 'tin T wisKnii hM.K,,,,, I undersigned executors of the es i;eason by taking first place ul Condon grade school invitation al basketball tournament, March 9 and 10. The "Ponies" won their three games with ease, beating Boardman 33 to 6, and Fossil 47 to 17 in the preliminary games. In the final game with Condon the score was 41 to 10. Heppner boys who participated in the tournament were Dick Kononen, Skip Ruhl, Lyle Jensen, Jerry Haguewood, Jimmy Hayes, Larry Mollahan, Niel Beamer, John Pi per, Ralph Marlatt and Jerry Doherty. For the season's record the lo cal grade school boasts an im pressive 14-2 record, losing only to lone and Umatilla. High scor er for the season was Jerry Ha guewod followed closely by Skip Ruhl and Dick Kononen. The "Po nies" combined a tight zone de fense with an effective fast break which together with good shoot ing and ball handling produced a winning team. The team was coached by Cla- o PICTURE SHOP NOT CREDITED The group of pictures of the square dancing party appearing on the front page of the Gazette Times last week were taken and developed by the Picture Shop. A credit line should have accom panied the pictures and since it did not the t Gazette Times is hereby offering an apology. The proprietors of the Picture Shop Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Dodson, are acquiring a "morgue" of local scenes as fast as weather condi tions permit clear photography and aim to keep in touch with events transpiring hereabouts. o FORMER RESIDENT PASSES A short note from Abe Black man in Portland informed this nanpp that hid hrnthpr Wpnnnor Eileen left Saturday for the coast Blackman, passed away in San Francisco March 13 at the age of claims against the said estate are hereby required to present the same with proper vouchers duly verified by law to the joint executors at the law office of P. Lite of James G. Thomson, Sr., rlr-ppasprt havp filrrt with the Pro- ! bate Court of the State of Oregon 1 w- Mahoney at Heppner, Oregon, for Morrow County, their final Within six months from the date nnnnnnt rf thpir flrtministratinn i hereof. 22nd day of March, 1931. ORIS R. II. PADBERG J. ARCHIE PADBERG Joint Executors of the es tate of JOHN H. PADBERG, deceased. P. W. MAHONEY Attorney for the Executors Ofy jaunts. Ikrlar (Klarg nf jattMumrk. ST. PATRICK'S CATHOLIC CHURCH HEPPNER METHODIST CHURCH ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH HEPPNER CHURCH OF CHRIST ASSEMBLY OF GOD Courtesy of TUM-A-LUM LUMBER CO. and way points. They accompan- j tea Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Lilly and son of La Grande who are on spring vacation. Lilly is a La Grande teacher. Sunday guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Thorpe were Thorpes brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ike Thorpe and family of Prineville. John Walker and son Dickie motored to Enterprise Friday, go ing for Mrs. Walker who had been with her mother for two weeks. They returned Sunday. Among the Pendleton shoppers Saturday were Mr. and Mrs. Rol lo Moore and sons, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Partlow and family, Mr. and Mrs. Willard Baker and daugh ters, Mrs. Leo Root and Mrs. N. A. Macomber. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Marlow and sons motored to Pendleton Sunday afternoon where they at tended a birthday dinner and party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Shipp, the occasion being Mr. Shipp's birthday. Sunday afternoon guests of Mr. and Mrs. Claud Coats were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Walker and son Bill of Heppner. The Boardman high and grade school students motored to Hepp ner Friday where they took part in the county speech festival. Grade students taking part were as follows: Prose reading, Bar bara Gantenbein and Sharon Fus sell; poetry reading, Wanda Hug and Carol Hamilton; story telling, Maxine Sicard, and humorous reading, Lorna Shannon and Ma rie Potts. Maxine Sicard and Ma rie Potts repeated their readings in the evening between acts of the high school plays. Five boys from the local FFA chapter with the instructor, Ron ald Black, left Sunday for Cor- vallis where they attended the state conference. Going were STAR DD REPORTER Mm M, M Tu. M. OTA o iMmi Bm. Mm M, M. M, T kU OMKpyta mm Mit hr HM Sundor how. continues trm I p n Ffc-T 1171 ta rtottaf He of the M rant (hows. All program mcc?( SgndttT etart at Jin p. m. Thursday-Friday-Saturday. Mar. 22-23-24 TRIPOLI Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Howard DaSiWa, Philip Reed. Connie Gllchriat Here is high adventure in strange, exotic land. . . .based on one of the more inspir ing Incidents in American history, the expedition of the U. S. Marines against the Tripoli pirates. Filmed in Technicolor. PLUS LIGHTNING GUNS Charles Starrett and Smiley Bumette In a Durango Kid western with music. the threat to Democracy. New the March of Time. issue of Sunday-Monday. March 25-26 TWO WEEKS WITH LOVE Jane Powell. Ricardo Montalban, Louia Calhern. Ann Harding, Debbie Reyn olds. A youthful, joyful Technicolor Musical! Ten isonghits! A real celebration. SCHOOLS MARCH ON virhr. uHtt win the hattle for the minds of tomorrow's citizens? Here is how public I education can be strengthened to meet II SPECIAL! MARY VAN'S FLOWER SHOP will present a beautiful Easter Gardenia to each lady attending . the theatre . on Easter Sunday. The StaT Theatre Joins Mary Van's In wishing you all the Joys of the Glorious Easter Season 1 Tuesday-Wednesday, Mrch 27-28 THE NEXT VOICE YOU HEAR James Whitmore, Nancy Davis, Gary Gray Utterly different, this is sheer mastery in picture-making. . . .the Btory of what happened at 8:30 p. m. all over the world! Recipient of Special Merit Award from Parents' Magazine and nation-wide tributes. i . ' 68 years. Hep will be remembered by the older residents here abouts as the family resided in Heppner many years. His father, the late Henry Blackman, was associated in the mercantile bus iness with Henry Heppner, the town's founder. Hep took up car tooning as a career, working on papers in Texas and other south ern states, later ptipapinf in com. mercial art work in Los Angeles I 4rr1 Gov. tVinnlpnn tT.i ...nr. n cousin of Harold Cohn of Heppner. o Local News In Brief A note from Mrs. C. L. Wheeler informs the Gazette Times that her mother, Mrs. Olive Swaggart, is not now seriously ill as pre viously reported. Mrs. Swaggart is partly paralyzed but is rest ing comfortably in her daught er's home. She was visited last week for a few days by her Bon, Grover Swaggart of Woodburn. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lucas left Monday morning for North Bend, Wash, to remain for six months. Fred said he would be back in Heppner for a short time in about six weeks. Visitors in Heppner Tuesday evening were Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Jones of Pasco. Jones was seek ing a birth certificate and came over to have his aunt, Mrs. Frank S. Parker, and uncle, O. G. Craw ford, sign some papers attesting that he was born. Mrs. Maude Casswell left Wed nesday morning for Corvallis to attend a school on preservation of foods, conducted by the home demonstration agents of the state. She will be gone until the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bergevln, former lone residents, have pur chased a small cattle farm near Hermiston. They will live on the farm except in the winter months which they will spend at their Pendleton home. Their address is Box 76, Route 1, Hermiston until further notice. Mr. and Mrs. Omer McCaleb were up from Reedsport over the week-end. They were in atten dance at the OSC alumni recep tion and band concert Sundav evening. Omer is on the teaching staff at the Reedsport hi?h school. Gerald Bergstrom, student at Oregon State College, is spend ing tne Easter vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Berir- strom. of the estate of said deceased, and said Court has fixed Monday I the 23rd day of April, 1951, at j the hour of 10:00 o'clock in the I forenoon of said day in the Coun- j ty Court room at the Court House, j at Heppner, Oregon, as the time I and place for hearing objections to said final account and the set- ) tlement of said estate and all , persons having objections there to are hereby required to file , such objections with said Court j on or before the time fixed for said hearing. Dated and first published this 22nd day of March 1951. JAMES G. THOMSON, Jr. RODERICK THOMSON, -JOS. J. NYS, Executors Attorney for Executors. 1-5 o IN BANKRUPTCY No. B-31238 IN THE UNITED STATES DIS TRICT COURT FOR THE DIS TRICT OF EASTERN. ORREGON: In the matter of Alfred Nicholas Boyer, Bankrupt. NOTICE OF FIRST MEETING OF CREDIT ORS. To the creditors of Alfred Nicholas Boyer of Heppner, a No tice is Hereby Given that said Alfred Nicholas Boyer has been duly adjudged a bankrupt on a petition filed by him on March 14th, 1951, and that the first meeting of his creditors will be held at the Office of the Refe ree in Bankruptcy in the West JacobGon Building, in the City of La Grande on Saturday, March 31st, 1951, at 10:30 o'clock a. m., at which place and time the said creditors may attend, prove their claims, appoint a trustee, appoint a committee of creditors, examine the bankrupt, and transact such other business as may properly come before Raid meeting. Dated at La Grande, March 15th, 1951. Howard E. Dixon, Referee in Bankruptcy. lc o Dated and first published this Heppner, Oregon mm mmm Ik1' fViPIl v.Ai. :::::: NOTICE TO CREDITORS , NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been duly appointed by the County Court of Morrow County, State of Oregon, joint executors of the es tate of JOHN H. 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