Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, June 14, 1951
Page 5
SAINT PATRICK'S CHURCH
Religious vacation school con
ducted by Sister M. Euphemie
and Sister Rose Veronica, both of
the Holy Name Order will con
clude on Sunday next, June 17.
The closing will be observed with
a High Mass sung by the chil
dren's choir at 9 a. m. and a par
ish breakfast for the first com
municants as well as the child
ren attending school. This will
be the only service in the parish
There will be no Mass in lone
next Sunday.
A total of 52 children fegister
ed and attended the two weeks
course conducted by the Sisters.
The lay teachers were Mrs. Beth
Haglund and Betty Howell. Mass
es the following Sunday, June 24,
lone, 8:00 a. m.; Heppner, 9:30.
SEWING MACHINES
New and Used
Accessories, Tension Adjustments, Clean
ing and Repair on AllMakes
See HELEN E. RICH
for free demonstrations on new machines,
each Wednesday at Gilliam & Bisbee
ACCIDENT
AutomOBii.TL
I TOLD Y .X MOTTO ROLL ,
Con Cost You
your HOME
your SAVINGS
your AUTOMOBILE
your Future Earnings
. . . and probable lost
of driver's JJceme
under the Financial
Responsibility Law.
SAVE MONEY
insure with
FARMERS
Far C!fi.':J9 t-efails, calf or inquire at the office of
Wigrnrnan Agricultural Service
103 N. Main St., Heppner, Oregon
You can't cet
sustained milk
nor top profits . . . from your cows unless
they're in top condition. To safeguard their
condition, they need the nutrient balance
that Larro Dairy Feed provides. It builds
strength and vitality ... it helps cows develop
husky calves and produce their full inherited
capacity of profit milk. Thousands of actual
Herd Check Profit Records prove that
Larro, fed the Larro Way, pays a handsome
profit over feed cost. Let us show you how
to get these extra dollars from your cows.
Morrow County rain Growers, Inc.
Heppner " Lexington lone
MOVED
to our new location
in the building between Wilson's
Men's Wear and Turner, Van Marter
& Company.
Will be open for business
Saturday, June 16
and will be looking for you.
A wonderful buy on pillow cases.
Heppner Flower Shop
LAUREL VAN MARTER, Owner
Things Yu Should
Know About OPS . . .
If you are the proprietor of a
barber shop, beauty parlor, or run
a bowling alley or automotive
repair shop, to name a few activi
ties, you are one of thousands of
service operators who must file
ceiling prices by June 16 with
the Oregon OPS office in the Lin
coln building.
According to Carl C. Donaugh,
OPS director, both personal ser
vices and those rendered in con
nection with trade and commerce
are governed by OPS regulation
No. 34 on services, which freezes
prices to highest charged between
Dec. 19, 1950 and Jaunary 26, '51.
Affected by the June 16 filing
requirement are operators of ra
dio repair shops, cleaning and
laundry establishments, service
station operators (except sale of
petroleum products), car and
truck rentals, appliance rentals,
shoe repairs, painting, plumbing,
services performed in connection
with installation of household
items, day nursery services, and
many others.
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Traffic Fatalities
Continue to Gain
Morrow county students be
lieve in keeping up with recent
social scientific developments.
Juniors and Seniors of Morrow
county schools "held their own"
in a nationwide testing program
carried on under the sponsorship
of the Educational Testing Ser
vice of Princeton, New Jersey.
Test results show the Juniors av
erage above that of the national
average while that of the seniors
is slightly below.
High among the seniors were:
1st, Malaki Campbell of Hepp
ner; 2nd, Ronald Baker of lone;
3rd, Dolores Keenan and Juanita
Matteson of Heppner. Leaders
among the juniors were 1st, Sally
Cohn, Heppner; 2nd, Michael
Lanham, Heppner; 3rd, Nancy
Rands, Boardman.
Others in the upper third, na
tionally among the juniors were
Boy Scout Council
Sets Opening Date
Of Camp Wallowa
Camp Wallowa, the Blue Moun
tain Boy Scout council's summer
camp, will open July a to De op
erated for six consecutive weeks
until August 19.
Highlights of the Boy Scout
camp include swimming, boat
ing, archery, riflry, hiking, out
post camping, fishing, woodcraft
and scoutcraft. Troops will have
their choice of 10 campsites at
Camp Wallowa.
Boy Scouts and Explorers must
register with their scoutmaster
for the period their troop will at
tend Camp Wallowa. Scoutmas
ters will send in the camp reser
vations for their troop. Scoutmas
ter accommodations are avail
able for the adult leader of each
troop attending camp.
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RECEIVES SERVICE PIN
George C. M. Smith of Hepp
ner has been awarded a gold pin
for his 10 years of continuous
service with Standard of Califor
nia, the Company announced to
day. Smith was among the 142 em
ployees receiving pins during the
month of June.
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ANNUAL PICNIC SLATED
Morrow county residents have
an invitation to join their old
neighbors residing in and near
Portland for the annual Morrow
county picnic in Laurelhurst
Park Sunday, June 24. Coffee will
be furnished to go with the pot
luck dinner to be served at 1 p. m.
Leeta Linn of lone; Dolores
Zivney, Peter Cassidy and Doris
Roeser of Boardman; Nancy
Adams, Eleanor Rice, Gary Con
nor, Keith Connor, Albert Bur
kenbine and Jim Smith of Hep
pner. Other seniors in the upper third
were Bob Sicard and Keith Tan
nehill of Boardman; John Ed
wards of Lexington; Bob Cun
ningham, Phil Smith, and Mar-
I ion Green of Heppner.
More Forest Land
Burned by May 15
Than in All of 1950
Many Oregon citizens will find
it hard to believe that more for
est land was burned over in the
State of Oregon up to May 15, '51,
than during the entire season of
1950. Since there were very few:
lightning storms that set fires al.
most every fire was man-caused.
The carelessness exhibited by
those having land clearing fires
and operating power saws during
the periods of low humidity and
east winds last April in some in
stances amounted to complete
disregard for forest resources and
for neighbors, according to the
Keep Oregon Green association.
The fact that these fires, like
the Tillamook fire, in April start
ed under the worst conditions for
control experienced in many
years merely aggravated the era
gedy. It was necessary for Gov
ernor McKay to advance the
closed fire season more than a
month. Oregon's closed season is
May 15, this year it was moved
to April 1. State burning permits
aer now required before fires are
started. Many ranchers in burn
ing off fern areas before the sea
son is closed found their fires
spreading beyond their control,
since they evidently thought
fires would not spread so early
in the year.
"Fern and Brush Fires" can no
longer be discounted as being
inconsequential, when as a mat
ter of fact they are destroying
either natural reproduction or
trees that have been planted
and which are the forests of the
future.
Oregon will need the coopera
tion of every citizen for the re
mainder of the season to help
prevent forest fires.
The Keep Oregon Green associ
ation makes this appeal to you.
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Don Bennett went to Portland
for the week-end to be with Bud
Blakely who was up froom Tuc
son, Ariz, to visit his mother,
Tired of the City? Then Visit
Jordan Valley for Relaxation
TMi tl tfi fourth T i tertef ff
motoriOftb sponsored bf The Oronlan
and the Oregon State Motor association.
Like future motorloKS. this one, which
appeared tn The Bunday Oreuonlan
Marattne Section of June 10, was based
on a winning letter In the newspaper'
"Mf Sentimental Journey" contest.
BY PAUL HAUSER
Staff Writer. The Oregonlan
IF YOU HAVE thought the
Willamette valley is about 'all
there is to Oregon, this is a
1200-mile prescription to get
shut of that fallacy and have
yourself a wonderful time.
You may have heard of Jor
dan Valley. It's about as far as
you can get from Portland and
still be in Oregon. It's a rnile
and a half from Idaho as the
crow flies and not far from
Nevada.
The shortest way to get there
is through Bend and Burns and
that's the way we headed the
white car cf tho Oregon State
Motor association The Orego
nian motorlogs, when we loaded
up in Portland one Saturday
morning. Paul and Janet, Judy,
age 9 with notebook and pencil
and Sarah, age 5, with assorted
dolls and comic books.
We were in Burns Saturday
night and Sarah Jane, our 5-'
year-old cowpoke, was in ec
stasy to see real live cowboys
on the streets. This is cattle
country and great range for a
Roy Rogers or Hopalong Cas
sidy fan.
A comfortable night in a mo
tel and we were off in the
morning, heading south on state
highway 205 through irrigated
fields of lush grass and hay.
It's a 45-minute drive from
Burns over a well-packed
gravel road to the Mauheur and
Harney lakes in the distance.
The federal fish and wildlife
service buildings, tile-roofed
and attractively landscaped, lie
on the southern shore of Mal
heur. We had phoned ahead, and
Ray Erickson, the biologist for
the refuge, met us.
Myrinds of red wing black
birds had flaunted their bril
liance at us as we approached,
and geese and ducks flew up
from water near the road. But
Erickson showed us a couple of
dozen more varieties in a lva
hour drive down the Blitzen
river valley.
American egrets standing
white and stately in the marsh,
sandhill cranes walking stiff
gaitcdly away from our camera
and clucking caution to a
toddling red-topped chick, the
sudden startled mem oi qucks
of a dozen varieties, a brood of
geese carefully learning to nav
unto.
We almost ran over a brood
of kildcer. Judy caught one and
held it in her hand, a tiny
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Waterfowl in Malheur federal bird refuge nest in marshy
land of Blitzen valley. Refuge boasts 227 varieties.
ljuwvON CITY
( jjimitws f j
,V..' ,? V-KOMI ill
t a jl
squirming thing, while the
frantic mother called "Look j
here, look here," trying to lead 1
us away irom me omers muueii
in the grass.
We missed seeing anteiope
and other game, though the
refuge abounds in deer, beaver
and water animals. Our timing
was wrong, and next time we 11
arrange to come in the early
evening when the animals start
to roam.
Next time we 11 arrange to
come for longer, for what we
saw in our allotted time was
nothing compared to the whole.
Some 227 varieties of birds,
mostly waterfowl are known
to nest in the refuge, which is
one of the greatest waterfowl
sanctuaries in the nation.
It's historic country, too, this
beautiful marshy, lush Blitzen
valley. Much of the refuge's
160,000 acres was once part of
Peter French's "P" ranch.
Erickson pointed out to us the
meadow in which Peter French
was killed, shot by a squatter
with whom the hardy rancher
had a feud.
Off to the south rise the beau
tiful and majestic Steens moun
tains, towering up to 9000 feet
Snow melting on their steep
slopes provides most of the
grass-growing water which at
tracted first the waterfowl, then
the Indians and then the cattle'
men.
From the refuge we headed
east and south through the sage
brush, past the junction at
Princeton.
The dirt road lasted about 30
miles and we came upon newly
paved hichway climbed a high
ridge and suddenly were treat
I ed to a breathtaking view of the
Kteens mountains. On past
1 Follvfarm to the iunction with
! hitrhwpv 95. where we wore P5
! miles from the Nevada border.
Down through the corrus
catcd. eroded canyon of Crook
ed crock, and we came again to
that eternal surprise of the arid
, country the sudden halt of the
saeebrush and the beginning of
'. rich preen prass with the first
irrigation canal as boundary.
We were at Rome and the Owy
hee flowed broadly, the first
stream of size since the Deschutes.
Jordan creek flows into the
Owyhee just below Rome. We
were in the Jordan vaney
where the Basques from the
Pyrenees in Spain and France
settled and prospered until
there are now several thousands
of their descendants in eastern
Oregon and in Idaho.
"The finest people in the
world live here," Dr. William
Jones, the 75-year-old physician-pharmacist
of Jordan Val
ley told us.
Jordan Valley was turn
around point in our exploration
of southeastern Oregon. We
headed up through rugged
country and dropped down to
the green fields, pastures and
orchards of the Snake river val
ley. To return westward we chose
highway 28. There is no more
beautiful and interesting route
across Oregon. Leaving the rich
ness of the Vale-Ontario area
irrigated by the impounded
waters of the Owyhee, the rood
climbs steadilv to the high pla
teau from which the Blue moun
tains rise. You come to Unity,
almost hemmed in by mountain
peaks, and then start climbing
through the Whitman national
forest to Dixie pass at 5277 fect
elevation.
On dowrr the John Day valley
with a brief pause for a two
mile Fide visit to the old gold
mining town of Canyon city
following the rapid river into
the deep canyon it has carved.
Off up Rock Creek canyon, over
the hill to Mitchell, not far from
the Painted Hills state park,
and then the road through the
park-like Ochoeo national for-
est. The road is new and fast
I and will be completely surfaced
this summer.
Then vou're in Prineville. and
when you're in Prineville
vou're practically home to any
1 town in the Willamette valley.
TO OBSERVE GOLDEN
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hynd, for
merly of Cecil, now residents of
Pendleton, will observe their Gol
den Wedding anniversary Sun.
day.June 17. Their daughter, Mrs.
C. L. Lieuallen has arranged open
house from 6 to 9 p. m. at her
home, 203 N. W. Ninth street,
Pendleton.
An invitation is extended to all
friends to attend.
LEGION ELECTION DUE
Attention of Legionnaires is
called to the annual nomina
tion of officers which will be held
at 8 p. m., Monday, June 18. Com
mander Jack Edmondson urges
all members of Heppner Post No.
87 to be on hand as there will be
the business of drawing up plans
for the ensuing year as well as
making nominations for the sev
eral offices.
NOTICE
To our friends and customers:
S & H green stamps will be gi
ven on accounts only when
paid IN FULL within the month
following purchase.
Gilliam & Bisbee
OUR DEMOCRACY-
by Mat
PTHE EYES HAVE7100
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From ib&i to ebs, matthew braov followed the
ARMIES FROM BATTLEFIELD TO BATTLEFIELD, WITH HIS
CUMBROUS CAMERA-AND SAVE US A GREAT PICTORIAL
HISTORY OF THAT WAR. HE WAS THE FORERUNNER. OP
NEWS PHOTOGRAPHERS, BUT HIS OWN PICTURES WERE
HISTORY, NOT NEWS, BY THE TIME THEY WERE PUBLISHED.
Todays news photographers, aided by the tremendous
advances in photography and the transmission of
pictures by wire and wireless, give us the news
picto rl ally wherever and whenever it happens, in
peace or war. through their efforts we gain a
sense of history in the making, and of participation
in the events of our times. these modern bradys"
thereby help alert and inform the people , to the
advantage of our democracy.
Get New Tires
for Summer Driving-NOW!-while
our stocks are complete
We still have a few white sidewalls
left.
Jack's Chevron Station
Jack Van Winkle
RPM Lubricants Atlas Tires
Phone 802, Heppner, Oregon
For
Better
Cleaning
Call
2592
We think the best
proof of our superior
work is the fact that
customers stick with
usl Some of the city's
leading families have
been sending for us
ever since we've been
in business.
Ties Cleaned, Too
Send us some of those old
weather beaten neckties
and be amazed at the won
derful way we clean 'em.
They really look like new.
HEPPNER CLEANERS