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H8KARY U OF 0 EUGENE, ORE efcfcer $3.00 Year, 10c Copy First Major Forest Fire Under Control Forest Service officials in the Heppner office reported late Wed nesday that the forest fire in the Baylor Basin area near Spray was under control and that all remaining work consisted of mop-up operations. The blaze, one of four starting the same day, was reported Mon day afternoon in private timber holdings of the Kinzua Pine Mills and covered about 900 acres be fore being controlled. Crews from , the Kinzua mills were immedi ately dispatched, as were two crews of 30 men each from the Heppner Lumber company. The local men left here Monday eve ning and Tuesday morning. The last crew returned to Heppner at 9:30 Tuesday night. Three of the four fires were be lieved to be man-caused with in dications that they were inten tionally set. All started in the Legislators Work Becomes Effective This Thursday Today marks the day when most of the law changes enact ed by the last legislature will go into effect the end of the 90 day waiting period before any new law is effective unless it carried the emergency clause. There are a good many changes due Oregonians but probably the most noted and most controver sial one will be the appearance of colored margerine on the shel ves of grocers starting Thursday. It is doubtful that any legislature spent more time discussing a measure than was spent on this one. Also effecting every car driver in the state is the new automobile accident liability law which takes away the one free accident angle possible under the old law. There are many other statute changes which will effect varied Interests including truckers, minor school law changes and in dustrial accident benefits. Four major bills have been re ferred to the people including the controversial Holy school bill, a bill to increase truck taxes, the cigarette tax bill and its com panion bill calling for fair trade prices on cigarettes. These mea sures can not be put into effect until passed upon by the people at LUC CCUCiai All 1952. Rhea Creek Grangers To Hold Sun. Potluck Members of the Rhea Creek Grange are to meet Sunday aft ernoon, August 5 for a potluck supper at the Claude Buschke mountain home above Hardman, the place formerly known as the Robinson ranch. According to Mrs. Ray Drake, grange reporter, the time has been set for 5:00 p.m. to allow members who are harvesting a chance to get to the supper. o WORD WAS RECEIVED OF DEATH OF HEPPNER MAN Word was received this mor ning by C. J. D. Bauman of the death of Walter Mattson at 9 a. m. this Thursday morning in Maywood, California. He will be remembered by his friends as a former Chief of Police of Hepp ner. o P. W. Mahoney, Dr. A. D. Mc- Murdo and Ralph Jackson, mem bers of the Heppner Rod and Gun Club, attended a trap shoot in Portland during the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Verlan Matthews and family returned to Portland the first of the week after spend ing a few days here at the fam ilv home. JMre. Anna Thomsen has as her guests her daughter, Mrs. Ben nett and children. Mr. Bennett left for Seattle Wednesday by plane to go to Fairbanks, Alaska were he is employed by the gov prnmenL Al Porterfield was here from The Dalles for the weekend with LI- Mtlir Milk Delivery 'Heppner, same immediate area along an old logging road. At the height of the blaze more than 150 men including some soldiers and other mill workers from the Condon area were on the fire lines. While the fire was out of the National forest dist rict it was reported by all look outs in the area and due to weather conditions at the time, seemed almost to explode accord ing to their reports. National forest men also helped in the fight. The' fire burned through a stand of old growth and second growth pine and indications were that the old growth timber would have to be logged in the near future if any of it is to be sal vaged. Forest service officials called attention to the fact that fire conditions in this area as well as throughout the state, are the worst in many years with tem peratures holding in the 90s and 100s, and exceptionally low hu midity recordings. They urge the public to use the utmost caution while traveling or working in the woods or fields. Monday's large fire is the first one of major proportions in this area though there have been several small lightning caused blazes which have been confined before attaining any size. HEPPNER WEATHER BUREAU GETS HOT AND STILL IT'S HOT I The Gazette Times semi-official weather observer took . particular pains to take ac curate readings of his ther mometer all this week after complaints were received fol lowing last week's publica tion of maximum temper atures. The reports below will un doubtedly cool all his read ers off. Friday. July 27 100 Saturday, July 28 97 Sunday, July 29 96 Monday, July 30 ..... 99 Tuesday, July 31 100 Wednesday, August 1 99 0. Farm Stock and Equipment Loans Now Available Loan funds are now available through the Farmers Home Ad ministration for the fiscal year of 1951-52. Loans may be made to enable family-type farm op erators to buy livestock and e- quipment needed in the oper ation of their farms on a 5-year repayment plan. Loans may also be made to develop or improve present farms on a long-term basis according to Frank J. Bartos County Super visor, La Grande, Oregon. Spec ial emphasis is being placed on helping farmers round out their farm operations in order to pro duce the food needed ifl the cur rent world crisis and to place the farm families in a better posi tion in the future. In the past, loans have been made for live stock, equipment, seed, feed and operating expenses. Loans for the buying of additional land to make a family-type unit large enough to meet the family needs can be made on a 40-year repay ment plan. With this type of loan, a portion of such a loan can be used to refinance present indebt edness. While Veterans have prefer ance for loans appropriated by Congress, other farmers can ob tain the same service through an insured mortgage plan. Appli cations may be made at the Far mers Home Administration office at La Grande, Oregon. o Mr. and Mrs. William A Rich ards and daughters spent the weekend in Baker with her broth er and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Kenny. Mr. and Mrs. Max Buschke motored to Portland Saturday after their daughter, Joyce, who has been visiting in the city with Mrs. Victor Johnson and with her sister, Mrs. Sam Shipps at Rho-dedendron. Oregon, Thursday, August 2, 1951 MMMMMMMMMMMMMM IIP I HUM ty "J 7V ; - s -'-' - "" " v- ', vvf ' . - s t .. . . " y . J , &y 'I r ' ;l '-v THE PARADE OF ROYALTY Ida Lee Chapel Second Princess to be Honored The second girl to be present ed to fair and dance goers as a member of Morrow county Fair and Rodeo Royal court is Ida Lee Chapel in whose honor the second princess dance will be held this Saturday night at the Fair pa vilion. Princess Ida Lee will be re presenting the Lena community, though she lives with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Chapel on their ranch near Hardman. A 16 year-old brunette who stands 5 feet 5, she has blue green eyes and is a junior at Heppner high school. Ida Lee has lived on a ranch all of her life and can feel at liome doing any of the many jobs to be found there from driving a truck or tractor to helping trail cattle each Localites Help Build New Rodeo Fence Fence poles went up in a hurry last Friday and Saturday morn ings at the rodeo grounds when 17 Heppner men gathered in the cool of the mornings to help the rodeo committee get the grounds in shape for the coming event Posts had been previously set and the crew gathered at 5 o'clock in the morning to help in placing rails. Two hours work each day saw completion of the job which was under the direc tion of Frank Turner. : o Mrs. Joe Causey who has been spending the summer here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Monohan will depart this week for her home in Douglas, Arizona. Mrs. Causey visited the first part of the week with her sister, Mrs. Paul Hisler, at her home on Up per Butter Creek. Mrs. Ellis Irwin returned to her home in Portland Monday after spending several days here visit ing her father, Irvie Bennett and sister, Mrs. Elbert Cox. She was accompanied by Mrs. Ambrose Chapin who planned to remain in the city about a week. Guests this week of Mr. and Mrs. Emory Settles are her broth er and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sandstrom and children of Torrance, California. Dr. and Mrs. Ben Phillips of Portland were guests this week at the country home of his 6ister, Mrs. Claud Huston and Mr. Hus ton, in the Eightmile section. Fri. day, Dr. and Mrs. Phillips visited with Mrs. Robert Dobbs and fam ily in Heppner. 3Ir. and Mrs. Dick Johnson and daughters of Dufur were over Sunday guests at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beckett Service year with a regular crew. She has been very active in 4-H club work as have other members of the royal court but has surpassed some of them in one department, and the result of her work has given -her a herd of over 20 cattle of her own. - Ida Lee will be present to greet dancers Saturday as they enjoy the music of "The Columbians who are again signed to play for the gathering. In the parade preceding the fair and at the rodeo she will be seen riding her own thorobred race horse, Fuzz Button, which was sired by Booter Jim. Does she have a hobby . . .? Surely, and you couldn't guess what horses! 4-H'ers To Get Calves At State Fair The 1951 state fair will mark the 25th year that Oregon Jersey breeders have presented a regist ered Jersey heifer calf to the out standing 4-H Jersey exhibitor, according to Cal Monroe, state 4-H agent at Oregon State Col lege. Ralph E. Cope II, Langlois, will award this year's calf. Cope owns the world champion butterfat producer on twice-a-day milking. His purebred Jersey produced 1237 pounds of buttefat on offic ial test supevised by Oregon State college in 1950. The first award as made at the 1927 state fair when E. II. Wise of Grants Pass awarded a calf to Leslie Steward of Polk county. The Oregon Guernsey Cattle club, the Oregon and Columbia Valley Ayrshire assoiation, the Oregon Milking Shorthorn Breed ers, and a prominent Holstein breeder will also award purebred calves to the top 4-H exhibitors of each breed. HEPPNER MEN AT PORTLAND TRAPSHOOT Five Heppner men were in Portland Saturday and Sunday to participate in the Grand Pacif ic trapshoot sponsored by the Portland gun club. While no honors came back to Heppner with the men they all showed well in the shoot Those making the trip were P. W. Ma honey, Dr. A. D. McMurdo, Earl Warner, Ralph Jackson and Dale Brown. o Mr. and Mrs. Everett Kelthly and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Calvin have returned from Portland where the gentlemen attended a meeting of Ford employees. ought For - Heppner fattier Volume 68, Number 20 Elevators Report Heavy Hauling; Some Filled A check of Morrow county grain growers stations Wednes day brought reports of rapidly filling elevators, but officials stated that as yet it had not been necessary to dump any grain on the ground. The Lexington Elevator was filled practically to capacity with grain being loaded directly into freight cars but that several large growers had finished har vesting in that area and they held hopes that the peak of the hauling waspast. A temporary boxcar shortage was blamed for the congested condition, along with the extremely heavy crop now being harvested. Reports from the lone and Mc Nabb stations showed that haul ing had eased off in those loca tions but that elevators were well filled. Other elevator operators in the district reported conditions about the same as did the Grain Grow ers and that to date they had been able to handle everything brought to them. Managers of the that they had been forced to stop Jordan Elevator company stated hauling to the Arlington Ele votor early in the week because of plugged conditions there and a shortage of barges with which to move the wheat Harvesting in the Heppner area gained momentum with most growers south and east of here starting operations the first of the week. Reports continued to show good grade of wheat with continuing stones of high yield per acre. o Grand Jury Meets, To Report August 8 The Morrow county grand jury met last Monday in secret ses sion and will report its findings to circuit judge W. C. Perry re garding Ray Alan Barber who is in the Morrow county jail accus ed of the murder of Anthony Peter Ripp at Boardman two weeks ago. The report will be given judge Perry August 8. o Dates Set for Balance of Princess Dances The Fair and Rodeo dance com mittee reports that dates have set for all remaining princess and fair dances with the next seed uled for this Saturday night sponsored by the Lena, commun ity. Following this week's dance will be Willows grange lone, August 11; Rhea Creek grange, August 18; and the Lexington grange, August 25. The Queen's dances with the music of Jimmie Whetmore's orchestra are booked for Friday and Saturday, Septem ber 7 and 8. o . HOSPITAL PATIENTS New arrivals To Mr. and Mrs. Bill Labhart a baby boy named Mark William weight 7 lbs. 12 oz. born July 30. Medical Mrs. Carl Warner, Lexington; Mrs. Thelma O'Neal, Kinzua, dismissed; Miss Tresa Pounder, Monument dismissed; Major surgery Mrs. Elsie Mollohan, Heppner; Mrs. May Gilliam, Heppner; Cpl. Ervin Hoi man, Condon. Minor surgery Terry Camp bell, Heppner; Helen and Mary Emma Evans, Heppner. Out patients Bobby Lee De Spain, lone; Miss Helen Dyer, Mayville; Miss Janet Sprouls, Heppner; Mrs. Gertrude Van Horn, Heppner; Mrs. Mitzi Peck, Heppner. o Mr. and Mrs. Ted Pierson and daughters, Rose Marie and Mar Jorie, motored to White Salmon, Washington Saturday to spend the weekend with his mother, Mrs. Anna Pierson and other re latives. Enroute they visited in The Dalles with other relatives.- Tom Wilson was in Pendleton the first of the week to attend a meeting of Soil Conservation Ser vice employees. Eric Bergstrom, Eightmile far mer, who has just recovered from a recent serious illness at Pioneer Memorial Hospital, was a busi ness visitor in Heppner Monday. Chamber of Committee That something should be done about Reppnert milk problem, was the main point of discussion at last Monday's meeting of the chamber of commerce. Outcome of the discussion was the appoint ment of an investigating committee by chamber president J. R. Huffman, to look into the problem and report back to the group. Cause of the difficulty was the discontinuance of door-to-door delivery, last week' by the city's only sizeable distributor, the Dairy U. P. Car Loadings Take Big Jump Over Previous Months F. C. Tolleson, Union Pacific agent at Heppner reports that the railroad carloadings for the month of July showed a big jump over the previous month and over July a year ago. Total cars handled out of this office in July was 182 compared with 75 for July 1950 and 98 in June. A breakdown of loadings showed wheat accounting for the greatest cargo with 92 cars load ed during the month. There were 82 cars of lumber, 2 cattle, 2 horses, 2 sheep, and 2 cars of barley handled through the local yards ilso. Tolleson stated that the com pany was doing everything pos sible to keep grain elevators sup plied with cars and unless gov ernment shipments in the near future disrupted schedules It was believed this years wheat crop could be handled without neces sity of dumping on the ground. o Cemetery Hill Burns, Firemen Called Twice Heppner firemen were called out twice Monday afternoon and evening to control a grass fire which started near the Willard Blake residence on the west slope of cemetery hill. The blaze cov ered several acres of grass before being stopped by firemen and volunteers but not until it had run clear to the top of the hill and burned , off nearly half of the cemetery itself. Damage how ever' was light. . , . ; . r - The 'second call came from the same area where wind had whip ped remaining embers into dry grass. It was quickly controlled, o Family Gathering Held At Schwartz Residence A family dinner was held Sun day at the Schwartz residence In Heppner honoring Henry Sch wartz who celebrated his 81st birthday on Monday. The dinner was held a day early to allow all members of the family to be pre sent. Gathering for the party were Mr. and Mrs. Schwartz, William Schwartz and family from The Dalles and Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Schwartz of Heppner. o E. Harvey Miller returned to his home in Portland Monday after spending several days here assisting with the wheat harvest at the Tad Miller ranch near Lex ington. He returned with Mrs. Miller who motored up from the city Friday to bring her sister, Mrs. Gertrude Applegate, home. Mrs. Francis Mitchell is again at her office in the courthouse after a two weeks' vacation In Portland and the coast Mrs. Catherine Doherty has re turned from lone where she spent the past two weeks with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Rose Doherty. Mr. and Mrs. Don Pointer are the parents of a daughter, Donna, born July 11 in St. Anthony's Hos pital in Pendleton. Mrs. Pointer and the baby returned to Hepp ner Sunday. According to word received by local relatives, James Kenney has been elected grade school princi pol and teacher of the eighth grade at Fossil. This is his second year In the Fossil school, Mr. Kenney is a graduate of Heppner high school and Eastern Oregon College of Education at La Grande. Miss Rose Marie Pierson ..left Tuesday for La Grande where she will be employed as a Nurses' Aide in St. Joseph's Hospital. Miss Tlerson will also attend Eastern Oregon College of Education where she is majoring In Edu cation. Mrs. Mary Van Stephens mo tored to Portland to spend a few days loking after business mat ters. During her absence, Mrs. Emma Cox is working in the flower shop. Mr. end Mrs. A. E. Stephanl of lone were transacting business In Heppner Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Batty of Monument and his mother, Mrs. Jessie Batty of Kimberly were shopping in Heppner Saturday, Commerce to Probe Cooperative association (May flower milk). Mayflower head quarters for this area are in Hermiston. Most members objected to the elimination of home delivery and also to the every-other-day de livery being made to local stores, with the feeling expressed that the city was entitled to better service. It was suggested that the new ly appointed committee look into the prospects of obtaining the products of another dairy in the. area or possibly aid in obtaining a permit for the operation of a new dairy If an interested party could be, found. Before distribu tion can be made it is necessary for the state board of agriculture, under whose supervision the state milk control board operates, to grant a dairy permit The only other dairy distri buting in Heppner is owned by J. O. Hager and quantity from this source is limited. The possibility of asking the department of agriculture for a public hearing on the matter was discussed and the committee was instructed to see what steps would be necessary in order to take such action, should it be desired. Mayor J. O. Turner, reported Wednesday that he expected to ask the city council to authorize its own investigation into the much discussed matter at its next The city council at a spec ial meeting Wednesday night gave authority to mayor J. O. Turner to follow whatever course seemer feasible to ob tain better milk delivery ser vice in the city. meeting." He stated that he had also heard many complaints from milk customers since home de livery was stopped, but was un able to say what action the council would take until the mat ter was discussed fully. , o Phil Metschan, Former Heppner Hotel Man Called By Death Portland papers Thursday mor ning carried an announcement of the death of Phil Metschan, prominent Portland hotel owner. He passed away at his Portland home Wednesday. Metschan will be remembered In Heppner as owner of the Pal ace hotel here from 1902 to 1906, one of the buildings that remain ed Intact during the flood. He was well known to many eastern Oregon residents. o . Olden Services Are Held At Gresham Funeral services were held in Gresham, Thursday, July 26th for Mrs. Herbert M. Olden of 521 W. Powell Blvd., Gresham. Mrs. Olden passed away Monday at a Portland hospital after a linger ing Illness. She was 79 years of age. Born Emma Blanche Hayden at Shelblna, Missouri, February 14, 1872, she spent her girlhood in the Portland, Estacada and Viola communities. Later she lived In the lone and Gresham areas. She was married in Portland, December 24, 1893 to William Harrison Dobyns, who died at lone on October 18, 1912. Her marriage to Herbert M. Olden took place in Portland, April 2, 1914. The Oldens retired from wheat farming 15 years ago. Sh is survived by her husband, four sons, Walter C. Dobyns, Noel K. Dobyns and Harold W. Dobyns, all of lone and Jesse M. Dobyns of Portland and a brother, Howard Hayden of Portland. Also surviving are four grand daughters and five great grand children. Mrs. Oscar George has return ed from San Francisco where she has been visiting friends. Mrs. George also attended a theatre owners' convention in Del Mar, California. Enroute home, Mrs. George visited in Portland with her unc!e and ' aunt, Dr. and Mrs. Oscar Borg. Dr. Borg who has been seriously 111 is improving at present Mrs. V. R. Runnion and Mrs. Emile Groshens are still In the city to be with Mrs. Borg. ilia laiuu;,