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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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. ,
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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.
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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.
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