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OKG0.J H I S TOM I r A I P 'J R L I C A 'Jul! 0 I 'J ' I STY r o n t a ir . , eppet $3.00 Per Year; Single Copies 10c Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, June 7, 1951 Volume 68, Number 12 Ownership of Old Home Town Paper To Change July 1 Robert Penland of Lebanon to Become Publisher of G-T Negotiations have been com pleted for transfer of ownership and management of the Heppner Gazette Times from Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Crawford to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Penland of Lebanon. The transfer will take place July 1. Mr. and Mrs. Penland will ar rive June 26 with their household goods. In the meantime, the Crawfords are on the lookout for a place to live, temporarily, at least. They have no plans for the future other than to take a good rest and look around for a loca tion. The man assuming the role of publisher is a native Oregonian and an experienced newspaper man. He was born in Albany, graduated from grade and high schools there and in 1939 gradu ated from the University of Ore gon school of journalism. His first assignment was on the ad vertising staff of the Bend Bulle tin where he spent four years. Part of that time he was on the Bulletin's radio station, KBND. During the war he was employed at Coos Bay for one and one-half years and from there went to the Lebanon Express where he has been manager for the past six and one-half years. Mr. Penland was pledged to Sigma Delta Chi while at U. of O; was president of Oregon Adman agers in 1947-48. He is a member of the Lebanon Elks lodge, Ma sonic lodge and the Lions club. He and Mrs. Penland are mem bers of the Episcopal church. They have one child, Neal, eight years old. The Penlands, while new to Heppner, are not coming as to tal strangers. They were class mates of Edwin Dick, Francis Nickerson, Joe Green, and John G. Parker, which goes to say that they knew all about the town during their university days. Their acquaintance with the present publishers dates back five or six years when both fam ilies were attending the Oregon Newspaper Publishers associa tion meetings. The present publishers assum ed ownership on October 1, 1942. Those were black days through out the world but everybody car ried on in a forward loooking manner and the newspaper grew and prospered. It required work ing around the clock many times and this eventually played havoc with Mrs. Crawford's health. It was finally decided that the pro perty should be sold and the "old man" go out and look for some thing less strenuous as a means for earning a livelihood. o FUTURE FARMERS JUDGED BEST SWINE HERDSMEN While the 4-H clubbers were grabbing off most of the honors at the Oregon Wheat League Fat stock show and sale at The Dalles the first of the week the Future Farmers of America were a bit busy on their own acount. They took first in swine herdsmanship. The boys had their own animals at the show. The three boys on the team were Lynn Rill, Jerry Buschke and Bob Buschke. Francis Cook was their coach. o PENDLETON JUNIORS BLANK HEPPNER HOPEFULS, 7-0 Pendleton's Legion junior base ball team blanked Heppner's hopefuls in the game played Sunday on Rodeo field. It was the first appearance of the Hepp ner boys while Pendleton has been playing three years. Gary Connor, star Heppner Mfrh school athlete, pitched the ''ng contest and gave up our hits. Hepner garnered hits off of the Pendleton "er but was unable to make i in count. The visitors scored ' it- runs in the first inning and n -n the last. The other five constituted a pitchers' ' crowd turned out to ,nung fellows give their ialerpretation of the national pastime. Heppner's next game will be with Hcrmiston. It will be played at night on the Echo field. Pendleton Post No. 61 and the vrn Oregon Motor Service 'pnnsorinR the Pendleton an,. Ileimner Post No. 87 and Kosewall Motor Co. are the backers of the local team. Copious Showers Enhance Prospects For County's Crops Crop prospects have improved immeasurable this week with the coming, of rains that up to the time of going to press have brought more than an inch of precipitation to the county. Start ing in with heavy but not vio lent showers Monday night there have been intermittent showers ever since and the farmers are feeling comfortable if not down rigjit smug. According to Ralph Crum, pres ident of Tri-County Weather Research, Inc., these showers ar? the work of nature and not the result of any effort put forth by Dr. Krick and associates. Howev er, Dr. Krick did forecast rain for Monday night, beating the wea ther bureau to the draw by at least 12 hours. The bureau had forcast rain for Tuesday. Farmers say the rains are timely as in some sections the grain was not filling as it should. Cool nights and lack of really warm days have been a help to the crops and now the prospect is bright for a heavy yield all over the county. The situation is such that many of the farmers subscribing to the rain making experiment took time off this morning to drive to Condon to attend the annual meeting of the Tri County Weather Research, Inc., where Dr. Krick and some of his staff are on deck to answer questions and explain the work ings of their weather experiments Reports reaching Heppner are to the effect that the currant showers have been more copious over the northern grain section than up this way. Some of the larger grain growers are predict ing as much as 50 bushels in fields here and there over the wheat belt In any event, the av erage will be higher than previ ous years if the present prospect holds until the combines enter the fields Citizens Must Back Sewage Disposal Plan, Mayor Says Plans formulated thus far by the city council for the construc tion of a sewer system in Hepp ner were discussed by Mayor J. O. Turner at the Monday lunch eon meeting of the Heppner chamber of commerce. The ma yor stated that the council had made a start on a program to try and get something definite un derway and he thought it was about time the citizens, or cer tain segments of them at least, were let in on the plans. Before entering upon a discus sion of the council's dilemma, the mayor read letters from the state sanitary board in which it was apparent that the stale offi cials expect Heppner to do some thing about obtaining proper se wage disposal in the near fu ture. They would like to know the approxmiate date the city expects to start. Speaking for the city, Mayor Turner said the council had made something of a start in plans for raising revenue. One item is the levying of a 10-mill tax over a certain period. This would be augmented by a spec ial water users' levy or assessment.- The council committee studying the problem has recom mended a monthly additional charge of $1 for residences and businesses not included in the heavy user class. As for apart ment houses, hotels, restaurants and any other type of business using more than the minimum, the rate has not been determin ed as the committee feels furth er adjusting of rates should be made before submitting them for consideration by the council and the voters. Former Mayor Garland Swan son of lone was at the luncheon and was asked to tell how lone handles the town meetings. The town council calls an annual town meeting when all problems of the council and the community are brought to light. The results have been highly gratifying, Swanson said. The chamber of commerce com plimented Mrs. Henry Tetz on her work of making signs for the childrens' fishing reserve and re warded Vic Groshcns with a gift for being the best kid fisherman in the month of May. He caught a 21-inch trout, not in the reserve but below town. Annual Dinner of Soroptimist Club of Heppner . . . - ' i l r .'' This scene was taken Friday evening in the banquet room of O'Donnell's Cafe on the occasion of the third annual banquet and installation of officers of the Soroptimist club of Heppner. Mrs. Clara Gertson was installed as president; Mrs. Joe Hughes vice president and Mrs. W. C. Collins, secretary. Photography by The Picture Shop Soroptimist Club Holds Installation Mrs. Clara B. Gertson was in stalled as president of the Sorop timist Club of Heppner following the annual dinner served in the banquet room of O'Donnell's Cafe Friday evening. Mrs. Alice Dowell Jones of Portland, past Northwest Regional director and present chairman of the advisory committee, addressed the gath ering and did the installing. Mrs. Joe Hughes was installed as vice president, and Mrs. W. C. Collins as recording secretary. Miss Lcta Humphreys, corresponding secretary-elect and Mrs. John Saager, treasurer-elect were unable to be present and will be inducted later. The assemblage sat down to elegantly decorated tables, the handiwork of Soroptimist Mary Van Stevens, and partook of a most satisfying baked ham din ner. Dinner music was supplied by a record player from Gonty's Mrs. C. C. Dunham was mis tress of ceremonies and kept the meeting flowing smoothly. She called for a report from members on the manner in which they earned their five dollar assess ments for the educational fund. Miss Margaret Gillis captured the prize with her story. A man ! sent her five dollars for getting i Morrow Countians Log Trip of Oregon Journal Sponsored Cruise To Alaska Leonard Carlson took time out to write the Gazette Times a j letter from Alaska while on the Oregon Journal sponsored) cruise to the northland.) I Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Carlsoi, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Heliker and Mrs. Ida Grimes left on the Jour nal Alaska cruise -train from Portland at 8:15 a. m. May 2G for Vancouver, B. C. 337 miles dis tant, making a lunch stop at Ta coma at 11:25 a. m. Chartered buses were waiting to transport us to the Top of the Ocean res taurant for a special smorgas bord lunch. Left Tacoma at 1:15 p. m. and at 2:10 p. m. arrived at King street station in Seattle. Left there at 2:30 p. m. and ar rived at Bellingham at 5:20 p. m. where buses were waiting to take them to the Leopold hotel, six blocks distant, for a fine dinner. Left Bellingham at 7:10 ar riving at Vancouver B. C. at 9:15 p. m. Chartered buses were wait ing at the station to transport the party to the Canadian National dock where we boarded the Prince George for the cruise north to Skagway, Alaska, 1122 miles up the coast. Stops were made along the way. At Ocean Falls, a pa per mill town, seat of what is said to be the largest mill of the kind in the world. The cruise party had a grand time visiting over the city and inspecting the paper factory where guides took us through and explained every thing about making paper of all kinds. Sailing from Ocean Falls at 8:30 p. m. we arrived at Prince Rupert at 9:30 a. m. May 28. We were taken through the Canadian Fish and Cold Storage plant, also said to be the largest in the world. Left FR at 1 p. m. and ar rived at Ketchikan at 7:3o p. m. where we had 2 and a half hours to do as we pleased. At 10 p. m. we sailed for Juneau, capital of Alaska, arriving at 4:15 p. m. May 29. Gray Line sightseeing buses met us for a 32-mile ride through Tongass National Forest along Gastineau channel to the Mi" : ' v " , vs.' -V ' Council Ready To Submit Plan For Sewer Financing A start was made Monday eve ning by the city council to build up a fund for the construction of ; a sewer system. The council ap-1 proved a proposal to submit to the voters at the budget election the levying of a 10-mill tax. This will be supplemented by an as-1 sessment of $1 per water meter for residences and properly ad- justed rates on business houses, county buildings and school buildings. Pending further adjustments on public property. Residents of Water street are' preparing a petition to present ments to that street to take care of drainage a service car for him, accompany ing the bill with a Mother's Day card. The honored guest, Mrs. Jones, was accompanied by Mrs. Ger trude Gotcher, president- elect of the Soroptimist Club of Portland. The ladies drove to Prineville Saturday to attend the institution of a new club. spectacular Mendenhali glacier. On the return we skirted lovely Auke lake and had a beautiful view of the glacier and the snow capped mountains. In the eve ning we went to the territorial museum. It contains fine collec tions of Eskimo and Indian art and displays of Russian occupa tion and gold rush days. We sail ed from Juneau at 11:45 a. m. May 30, arriving at Skagway at 9 a. m. The story is that many gold seekers of the Klondyke rush landed at this port on the west side of the canal to venture over Chilcoot Pass, while others took the White Pass trail. A. L. Lamb of Salem and E. F. Marshall of Tacoma, members of the cruise, were among those early pioneers. Both came north in 1898. They gave us some interesting talks on gold rush days. At 9:30 a. m. the party left for Carcross, Yukon territory by spec ial parlor car train over the White Pass & Yukon route. Had dinner at Lake Bennett, 66 miles from Skagway. An interesting ride over rugged country. Saw a number of old mines where gold seekers had been looking for nuggets. Returned to Skagway at 7:30 p. m. Carcross was the northern terminus of our trip. At 7:30 p. m. the residents of Skag way gave us a party reminiscent of the days of '98 which was a delight to all. We sailed from Skagway at 10 p. m. for Glacier Bay, arriving at 7 a. m. It is a wonderful sight with glaciers hundreds of feet high. We were favored with excel lent weather for the cruise. The captain said no ship has ever been so close to the glacier be fore. On June 1, on our return trip we arrived at Petersburg at 8a. m. The Petersburg chamber of commerce was host for the par ty for the three hours we wore in port, he Prince George left Pe tersburg at 12 noon, passing through Wrangell Narrows. This thrilling trip must be at exactly Air Raid Alert Given Test Wednesday Oregon's civil defense air raid alert system was given a test Wednesday morning when warn ings were flashed to the several districts. The central office at Pendleton received the flash at 10 o'clock and it was relayed to Heppner by 1:15. The sheriff's office is the cen tral agency for the civil defense in Morrow county. Sheriff Bau man had left instructions with his deputies, Mrs. Frances Mitch ell and Mrs. Juanita Massey, and within 12 minutes after the alarm was received at the central of fice the several posts in the coun ty had been alerted. The deputies had to put call in to lone, Irri gon and Boardman. Sheriff Bauman commended the local telephone exchange for the manner in which the calls were dispatched. o O'CONNOR LEAVING Jack O'Connor, manager of the Heppner J. C, Penney Co. store since 1944, announced today that he is leaving June 17 to take the managership of the company's store at Fallon, Nevada. (Particu lars next week). o Carl Thorpe has purchased the Richfield station from George Davidson. the right stage of the tide and re quired skillful navigation. We left Wrangell Narrows at 1:30 p. m., arriving at Wrangall, Alaska at 4 p. m. The party was taken for a bus sightseeing ride over the city. At 8:30 the citizens of Wrangell entertained us with an interesting frontier party of the '98 gold days. Left Wrangell at 11:30 p. m. and arrived at Ketch ikan at 8 a. m. June 2. Had an hour bus ride over the city and two hours shopping. A beautiful little city; main industries, fish ing, canneries and cold storage plants. Sailed from Ketchikan at 12 noon June 2, arriving at Prince Rupert, B. C. at 7 p. m.; spent four hours shopping as we pleas ed. Sailed from PR at 11 p. m. Sunday; at 6 a. m. Monday the Prince George arrived at Doug las Channel and for miles we cruised right into the heart of the Coast Range mountains of British Columbia. Here glaciers and waterfalls of spectacular beauty can be seen. We left the Gardner Canal at 8 p. m. Monday at 5 p. m. and entered the Sey mour Narrows, a beautiful view. Arrived at Victoria at 7:30 a. m. Tuesday, landing at Ogdcn Point dock. A visit was made to the provincial capital of British Co lumbia In Victoria, the Prince George came in for an entire day so the cruise party went sight seeing, and browsed around and shopped as they wished. We sail ed from Victoria at 11 p. m. and arrived at Vancouver at 7:30 a. m. Gray Line sightseeing buses were waiting to take the parly for a three hour ride about the city. Vancouver is Canada's third largest city, population 400.000. At 12:15 we had luncheon at the Panorama Roof hotel. At 1:45 Wednesday .June 6, we entrained by Great Northern for Portland. arriving there at 10:35 p. m. All the cruise party had a wonderful time. We made about 3500 miles I in all. 4-H Clubbers Win Lion's Share of Awards at Fat Stock Show at The Dalles Heppner Strafed By Fossil, 13 to 8, In Sunday's Contest Heppner outhit Fossil in the Timber-Wheat league game at Fossil Sunday but hits don't mean scores unless the hitter crosses the home plate. Heppner got 15 hits to Fossil's 14 but Fos sil got 13 runs to Heppner's eight. The teams got six strikeouts each. Mortimore started pitching for Fossil and gave up five hits and four runs. He left the game with Heppner ahead 4-3. Prindle took over in the third and was never in much trouble. Fossil scored seven runs in the fourth inning on five hits after three Heppner errors. Drake pitched and Ball caught the entire game for Heppner. ; Hitting honors for Fossil went to Lewis, first baseman, who had a triple, double and two singles. Norman Bergstrom of Heppner ! lpH hie ton mm a tofc uriV, i tr-lnl ' a double and two singles. Joel i Engelman, Heppner's speedy centerfielder, got three hits to keep his average above .500 for the season. Next Sunday Heppner takes on the league leading Kinzua club The game will be played on the turf field at lone. Thus far Kin-1 zua has lost only to Heppner. Local News In Brief Randall Peterson is home from school at Couer d' Alene, Idaho to spend the summer vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Peterson. Janet Wightman, young dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Wightman, submitted to an ap pendectomy at the Pioneer Me morial hospital Wednesday eve ning. Mrs. Grace Nickerson left Mon day morning for Chicago to visit her son and family, the Francis Nickersons. She was accompan ied by her granddaughter, Billie Pat Hayes of Arlington, and a niece. Upon their return at the end of three weeks they will be accompanied by Karen Hayes who stayed with Nickersons and attended school there the past year Miss Leta Humphreys return ed the first of the week from a short vacation. She went first to Kelso, Wash, to visit an uncle and aunt. Then she and her aunt went to Hillsboro for Memorial day. On their return the ladies visited other members of the fa mily at points along the coast. Mr. and Mrs. John Bergstrom and daughter Marilyn left this morning for Corvallis to bring Gerald Bergstrom, student at Oregon State college, home for the summer vacation. Ihey were accompanied by Mrs. Martha King and daughter Mary who went for a short visit with rela tives in the college town. Services will be held Sunday at the Heppner Church of Christ by the Rev. Earl L. Soward of Burns who will preach at 11 a. m. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Soward. Mrs. Maud Casswell has moved from the Farrens house to an apartment in Mrs. Bertha John son's house. She has redecorated the rooms according to her own taste, demonstrating both her knowledge of interior decorating and her ability to do the work. Mrs. Douglas Ogletree return ed Monday from Portland after undergoing major surgery last week. She came to Pendleton by plane and was met there by her husband. She will be bedfast for some time. Miss Margaret Gillis left today for Longview, Wash to attend a reunion of alumnae of the Pres byterian hospital of New York City o Garden Club Show Set at Lexington Tuesday, June 12 is tne date chosen by the Lexington Garden club for its spring ilower show at the Ladies Aid room of the Congregational-Christian church. Exhibits must be in place by 2 p. m. for judging; There are four classes: Specimen flowers; flower arrangements including one variety and mixed lots; cor sages; house plants, both foliage plants and flowering. A silver tea will be held from 2:30 to 4 o'clock. Twelve Morrow county 4-H Club members arrived home on Thursday morning from the fifth annual Oregon Wheat League Fat Stock show and sale held at The Dalles early this week. At tending and taking part in the show were Duane and Ronald Baker, Malcolm and Leland Mc Kinney, Herbert and Richard Ek strom, Janet Howton and Ingrid Hermann of lone; Johanne Wil son, Deane Graves and Eddie and Johnnie Brosnan of Heppner. Leaders attending were John Graves of Heppner and Earl Mc Kinney of lone. Several of the club members' parents were on hand to encourage the members through to the excellent show ing they made. In taking considerably more than their share of the awards at this show, the first accomplish ment was their showing in the livestock judging contest held on the first day, Monday, June 4. Six of the ten high-placing live stock judges were from Morrow county with 108 participating in the contest. Ronald and Duane Baker and Johanne Wilson were given cash prizes and a "trophy at the Tuesday evening baniuo when it was announced that Ro nald scored first, Duane second and Johanne fifth. Janet Howton, Deane Graves and Herbert Ek strom took sixth, seventh and tenth places, respectively. With the livestock judged Tuesday, the second day, Morrow county club members again scored, Ingrid Hermann taking first place with her prime Here ford steer which was later judg ed reserve champion of the en tire show. Morrow county placed nothing lower than fourth place in the fat steer classes. Ronald Baker's Shorthorn steer was then judged champion Shorthorn of that division, which too, was a prime steer with Morrow exhib iting four of the seven prime beef of the 98 calves competing in the show. Deane Graves with his fat Hereford steer was also in the group showing for Grand Championship, won over by Brent Horn of Umatilla county and Ingrid Hermann of Morrow. In the showmanship contest on Wednesday morning, Morrow county again took more than its share of awards when Malcolm McKinney placed first in the in termediate class of fat steer showmanship and Ronald Baker in the senior division. Competing with the winner of the junior class, Ronald Baker was judged Grand Champion beef showman, with Malcolm McKinney taking Reserve Champion award.. Mov ing on to the sheep showman ship contest Ronald was judged first place winner with Johanne Wilson a close second. One of the highlights of the show was the grand championship contest. Ro nald competed against himself with his steer and sheep, with Sammie Nobles as champion hog showman. Ronald was awarded the Service Motor Company award, The Dalles, as Grand Champion showman of the week. The Morrow county gTOup then took champion herd of five steers of the entire show. The auction sale Wednesday evening was a successful event for the local club members with all animals exhibited bringing premiums of at least four cents over market prices. During this auction sale Malcolm McKinney was awarded the Mountain View Hereford Ranch Special which was a show halter presented by Fred Cox & Sons, Grss Vn!' Ronald was awarded the Serce Motor trophy at this time. o HOSPITAL NOTES . . . Patients at the Pioneer Memor ial hospital this week included the following: Mrs. Juanita Massey, surgery. Mrs. Mabel Burkenbine, medi cal treatment. Mrs. Glenna Adams, Spray, out patient. Mrs. Velma Huebener, out patient. Mrs. Cornet Green, out patient. Lillian Hubbard, Janet Wight man, medical treatment. Frank Van, Lexington, medi cal treatment. A son was born June 3 to Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Lindsay of Kin zua. Mrs. Garnet Barratt discharged after several days. J