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Rodeo Field Turfing
Plan Worked Out
By Joint Committee
Definite action toward the start tatively setting up a method of
uic lllucn-UlSCUSSPfl nan fnr finano nir thi
turfing the rodeo field for foot
ball use was taken Wednesday
when members of the fair board
chamber of commerce and school
board met to iron out details of
the project.
Last fall a chamber committee
was appointed to investigate the
possibilities of seeding the field
and since that time monev has
oeen maae available for the seed
and for preparation of the ground
for seeding. At the meeting a
definite plan was established ten-
Republicans Plan
Wednesday Rally
At Heppner
Plans for a county-wide Repub
lican rally to be held Wednesday,
February 27 at the court house in
Heppner were announced this
week by members of the Morrow
county Republican central com
mittee, headed by J. O. Turner.
Several candidates who have
already filed for state and federal
seats have already stated they
wiJi be preent for the meeting,
including Giles French who is
running for representative in
Congress; C. A. Tom, Rufus and
J. P. "Jack" Steiwer, Fossil both
of whom have filed on the Re
publican ticket for state repre
sentative.
Turner stated is is hoped there
will be other speakers present for
the meeting, including State
Republican chairman, Bob El
liott, but definite assurance has
not yet been received. Plans call
for an open meeting where the
candidates can explain their plat
forms and answer questions
raised by members of the aud
ience. The meeting is scheduled to
Start at 8 o'clock.
Republican Women Organize
Reorganization of the Heppner
branch of Oregon Council of Re
publican Women was started this
week when Mrs. George Gerlin
ger, Portland, and Mrs. H. D. Pet-,
erscn, Dallas, state chairman and
vice -chairman of the organization
Visited Hesppner to aid in the pro
gram. '
County officers were elected
Wednesday and the group chose
Mrs. L. E. Dick chairman, Mrs.
Frank Wilkinson, vice-chairman,
and Mrs. Robert Penland, secretary-treasurer.
A board of trus
tees will be selected in the near
future.
Roth Mrs. Gerlinger and Mrs.
Peterson told of the necessity of
an aggressive campaign urging
eligible voters to register. Mrs.
Peterson told the group that there
were 667 persons in Morrow
county over 21 years of age who
have not registered and suggest
ed a drive to get many of these
persons on the rolls.
necessary upkeep
cost and whose responsibility it
shall be to oversee the work.
While approval of the overall
plan still must be given by both
the fair board and the school
board, all those present felt the
plan offered a workable basis for
getting the project under way.
Inasmuch as the school's foot
ball program would benefit the
most for the turfing, it was called
upon to carry the largest share of
the maintenance cost which was
estimated at $800 to $1,000 a year.
The fair board would remain in
charge of the field and the main
tenace money would be paid to
it as rental.
The problem of obtaining suf
ficient water for irrigation is the
knottiest one yet to be settled, but
committee members felt it could
be worked out on an equitable
basis, possibly with the city.
A plan was presented by mem
bers of the chamber of commerce
merchants committee to light the
field but nothing definite could
be decided by the group until
figures were received on the cost
of a lighting system. Inquiries
have been sent requesting this
information
While there still remains the
necessity of actual approval of
the turfing plan by the various
boards concered, members felt it
would be gained shortly and ac
tual seeding could begin in the
near future so that a good sod
would be ready for next fall.
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C of C Members Hear
Boy Scouts, Students
Heppner-Morrow county cham
ber of commerce members Mon
day were hosts to a group of Boy
Scout patrol leaders and their
scoutmaster in recognition of Na
tional Boy Scout week.
The five patrol leaders and
their leader, Bradley Fancher ex
plained the boys' various ranks in
scouting and explained what
each had done to attain it. Fan
cher told the group that Heppner
troop 61 has a membership of
over 40 boys and that a continu
ing program is being carried out.
Also present at the noon meet
ing were James Vanover, faculty
advisor, Eleanor Rice, editor and
Jim Smith, business manager of I
the' Heppner high school annual
who told the group of the organi
zation necessary to get out the
yearbook. Eleanor Rice explain
ed that many students had a
hand in preparing the book for
the printers, with several assist
ant editors in charge of various
departments. Both predicted an
even finer book would be put out
by the students this year.
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one Baby Survives Unusual Birth; Immediate Successful
Major Operation Termed Exceptionally Rare Occurance
An exceptionally rare opera
tion performed recently by two
Heppner physicians saved the
life of infant Deborah Kayt War
ren, l he baby was born with ail
its abdominal organs outside the
bod v.
The baby, daughter of of Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur Warren of lone,
was born February 7 at Pioneer
Memorial hospital and vras im
mediately taken to surgery where
the successful operation was per
formed by Dr. Clifford M. Wag
ner and Dr. Richard J. O'Shea.
The physicians reported the
length of time required for the
operation to replace the organs
inside the body greatly lowered
the child's chance for survival,
but they gave much credit to new
antibiotic drugs and excellent
special nursing. The baby was
taken home the first of the
week and is now progressing
normally even though she is
largely covered with bandages.
According to the physicians it
is believed that "inside out"
births and similar operations in
the past had resulted in practi
cally a 100. percent fatality rv
cord. Dr. Wagner stated that the
baby probably had developed
normally except that the skin
had failed to close a small area
around tlu stomach wall and dur
ing the pressure of birth this wall
was ruptured. "It was necessary
to deflate the stomach in order to
replace h within the body," Dr.
Wat.ner stated.
Dr. Wagner said from all indi
cations the baby was now In ex
cellent health and would proba
bly suffer no ill effects in later
life from its unusual start in the
world. The physician stated,
however, that he would hate to
have to perform an appendec
tomy on her in later years, "her
appendix might be hard to find."
The baby's parents live on a
ranch near lone and he is the
sun of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Warren
of Heppner.
Single Copies 1 0 cents
Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, February 21, 1952
Volume 68, Number 49
Filings Made
For All Open
County Offices
At least one candidate has filed
already for every county office
which will be open this year ac
cording to records in the county
clerk's office. In only one case,
that of coroner, dors there appear
to bo any competition far th of
fices and that will not come in
the primaries as both parties are
represented in the filings.
For the coroner's position Dr. A.
D. McMurdo, incumbent has filed
as a democrat and Oliver Cres-
wick has indicated his intention
to run on the Republican ballot.
Others .filing for county of
fices are Russell Miller, Board
man for county commissioner; C.
J. D. Bauman, for sheriff and C.
W. Barlow for county clerk. All
have filed as Republicans and all
are present holders of the offices.
The four positions are the only
county offices which are open
this year. The assessor's treas
urer's and county judges' terms
carry over for two more years.
The deadline for filing is March
7.
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John McDonald Lyon
District Oddfellow
Convention At Lex
Extension Unit Plans
Dress Workshop
A preliminary meeting was
held for a cotton dress workshop
at Boardman, Friday 15th, at the
Greenfield Grange hall. Sixteen
members enrolled with Mrs.
Jeanne West, Chairman of the
Boardman Extension Unit.
Maud C. Casswell, County
Home Demonstration Agent, dis
cussed fashion trends, color, trim,
sizes and makes of patterns, and
types of fabrics for the spring
cotton dress. After a discussion
of the fabrics, the members tak
ing the cotton dress, decided to
avoid fabrics with plaids and
stripes for the first cotton dress
workshop.
Mrs .Hazel Shannon, Jeanne
West, Lolo Tannehill, and Zelda
Zivney will conduct -the cotton
dress workshop. These leaders
completed one cotton dress work
shop, two better dress workshops
and one tailoring workshop.. The
leaders received their experiences
and training from the following
leaders: Mrs. R. Rands, Mrs. Eve
lyn Black, Mrs. Jerry Garner. All
leaders have spent 4 years In
workshops and related clothing
projects through the Boardman
Extension Unit.
The three day spring cotton
dress workshop started February
20 at 10 a. m. at the Greenfield
Grange Hall, Boardman and con
tinues on February 27 and March
5. Those enrolled for the work
shop are: Mary Knapp, Jerry Gar
ner, Carol Turner, Ruth Hoffman,
Evelyn Black, Julia Conyers,
Shirley Allen, Myra Skoubo, Anna
nah Downey, Janet Skoubo, Anna
Skoubo, Gladys McLaughlin,
Hazel Carpenter, Francis Thorn
hill, Jessie Ziegler, Maude Brown,
Hazel Shannon, Jeanne West,
Leola Tannehill, Zelda Zivney.
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Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Piper had
as their dinner guests Sunday,
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Farra and
Ro'rert Ordway of FossiL j
Sporting Goods Store
To Be Opened Soon
Frank Andresen announced
this week that he will open a
sporting goods store in Heppner
within the next two or three
weeks. Andresen is the former
owner of Andresen's Hardware.
The new store will be opened
in the corner location of the Case
apartment building in north
Main street.
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FFA Starts Yorkshire
Swine Chain in Club
The district convention of Me
row and Umatilla county Odd
fellow kiodges will be held Satur
day, February 23 at Lexington
with the program scheduled to
start at 1:30 p. m.
A full afternoon and evening
program including election and
installation of district officers is
on the agenda. Holly Rehekah
lodge will serve a banquet in the
evening. Contest deivse work is
scheduled as a part of the even
ing program.
Navy Recruiter to
Establish Office
The Pendleton Navy recruiting
office this week announced plans
to have chief John Johnson of.
that office visit Heppner at regu
lar intervals starting next month.
Chief Johnson will make his
headquarters at the Heppner post
office from 12 to 2 p. m. every
first and third Tuesday to inter
view interested men between the
ages of 17 and 31 years
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P-TA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Allen Hughes, Bob Buschke and
James Allen went to LaGrande
last weekend to purchase a regis
tered, bred Yorkshire gilt for the
Heppner FFA chapter.
The pig was brought here to
establish a swinechain and was Creswick home
given iu dud anu jerry tsusenKe . -., ,si, ..ij 4
. ,, . , , ' . . , Mrs. Creswick, president, pre-
who will turn back a registered Lif,H . ntt .
uj .lu ... w .u. Vs.... t 'sided over the meeting which
MEETS TUESDAY
The executive committee of the
Heppner P-TA met Tuesday even
ing February 12 at the Oliver
bred gilt out of the first litter to
the chapter which will be given
to another boy.
TWO PROGRAMS SET
Two special young people's pro
grams have been scheduled at the
Assembly of God church for Feb.-i
27 and 28 with an entire evening
of music and singing set for the
first night by the young people's
group, Christ's Ambassadors.
On February 28 Rev. Leland
Morris, overseer of eastern Oregon
churches will be the special
speaker for the evening.
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ATTEND SPEAKING CONTEST
Four boys who are members of
the Heppner chapter of the FFA
attended a district FFA public
speaking and parlimentary con
test held at The Dalles February
7.
Though the boys, Allen Hughes,
Ken Turner, Ken Cutsforth, and
John Brosnan did not place, they
received experience and training
from the meeting. They were ac
companied by James Allen, chap
ter advisor.
dealt just with routine business.
All but three members of the
committee were present.
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Capt. and Mrs. Paul McCarty
arrived Sunday to visit her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beck
ett and other relatives in Hepp
ner. The McCartys have been in
the Midwest for the past several
months where he has been sta-
! tloned with the Army.
Well Known Organist
To Appear Here.
John McDanaM Lyon, acclaim
ed as on of America's great or
ganists, will present an evening
organ program at the Christian
church Tuesday, March 4. He is
appearing under the sponsorship
of the Christian Women's Fellow
ship of the enured.
Lyon has played many concerts
throughout the country and ha
been given excellent reviews by
numerous musk critics. The
program is to stasf-frt t o'etaeiiu
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Snowfall Brings Feb.
Rain to 1.07 Inches
Very little complaint was heard
around the county last weekend
when Jupiter Pluvius dropped up
to 3Vs inches of snow on the area
in fact most ranchers appeared
quite pleaaed. .
The heavy wet snow, while
varying from two to 3Vfe inches
held .58 inches of water at Hepp
ner and .63 at the GonKPberry
weather station.
The snowfall brought the total
precipitation for the month up to
1.01 inches m Heppner tnd J.07
at Gooseberry.
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Weekly Auction Due
At Heppner Yard
The first sale since taking over
ownership and operation of the
Heppner Sales yard will be held
next Tuesday by W. R. Wells and
W. D. Warzor, the new owners.
Regular weekly sales are plan
ned by the men who stated they
will start at 10 o'clock for miscel
laneous merchandises and 1
o'clock for livestock.
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Lex Man Finishes
Army Radio School
Camp Chaffee, Ark. Cpl. Billy D.
Griffin of Lexington, Ore., has
been graduated from the eight
week Radio Operators School
here. He has returned to Camp
Polk, La., where is stationed.
Son of Mr. Jack W. Griffin, Cor
poral Griffin has been in the
Army for three and a half years
and spent seven months in Ger
many. He wears the Good Con
duct Medal and German Occupa
tion Decoration. I
MCGG Drops Feed Plant Plans,
May Build Additional Elevators
May Get Feed
MRS. ECHO PALM ATE ER CHOSEN
lONE'S "OREGON MOTHER" NOMINEE
Mrs. Echo Palmateer was
chosen this week by a committee
of lone residents to represent that
town as an "Oregon Mother".
Mrs. Palmateer, widely known
in lone and Morrow county, has
been exceptionally active in civic,
lodge and club work In addition
to having raised a family of 2
girls and one boy. They are Ted
Palmateer, Morgan, Mrs. Dori
Stract, Oakland, and Mrs. Laurel
Cannon of lone. She is treasurer
of lone, city librarian, a member
of the Cooperative church, a Sun
day school teacher and often fills
in at the post office during rush
seasons. She is also reporter and
correspondent for the Gazette
Times and the East Oregonian.
The commltte consisting of
Omar Rietmann, mayor, Henry
Osibov, superintendent of schools,
Theodore Thomson, son of Mrs.
A"hna Q. Thomson, is here visit
ing for a few days with his moth
er. He is pilot for a private com
pany, The Flying Tigers, in south
ern California.
Mustangs Cinch Title
With Triple Victory
The Hepp ier Mustangs, with
reserves playing an all-important
part, added three impressive wins
to cinch the "Big Wheat League"
crown.
Heppner's victory over Condon
last Friday night by a score of
42-38 sewed up the title for the
local five. Roland Taylor, leading
the scoring with 14 points was the
big gun of the evening.
Saturday night the Pilot Rock
Rockets played on the local floor
but went home on the short end
of an 83 to 40 score. The point
huncrv Mustangs spf a nra
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' school record with the score and
Gary Comwr a&w c&alkd up a
new record by aeeoanting for
30 points in the evening. The
former record of 27 points is ne
game was et in 1947.
Tuesday evening Pendleton
Reserves came to Heppner, but
they too went home in defeat.
Jack Sumner led the scoring in
this encounter with 19 points.
There are only two home games
remaining on the Mustang sche
dule before they go to the dis
trict 6B tournament at The Dalles
March 5 to 8. They play Fossil
Friday night and lone here on
Saturday.
Farm Bureau Meeting
To Be Held Feb. 26
The Morrow County Farm Bu
reau meeting will be held at thi?
Markham Baker home Tuesday
evening, February 26 at 8 p. m.
Due to the increase in postage it
has been decided not to send
cards to all members to notify
them of the meetings and the
paper will be used to announce
the meetings which will he held
on the fourth Tuesday of the
month.
There are many important mat
ters to be discussed at this mint
ing and a good turn out of mem
bers is hoped for. Also, all per
sons who are interested in the
Farm Bureau work are invited to
attend this meeting.
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Hunters and Anglers
To Meet Next Tuesday
The first meeting of the year
for the Morrow county Hunters
and Anglers club has been set for
Tuesday, February 26, at 8 o'clock
at the court house according to
Dr. L. D. Tibbies, president of the
group.
The meeting has been called to
elec officers for the coming year
and to discuss the fishing out-j
look for the county. Movies of in
terest to sportsmen are also on
the evenings program.
Membership in the organisa
tion is open to anyone interested
in the preservation of wildlife in
the county. Dues are set at $1.00
a year which is used for prizes
nor the club's annual crow and
magpie contest.
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Lex Farm Bureau Meet
At Majeske Home
The Lexington Center Farm
Bureau met Feb. 12 at the home
of Kenneth peek. The meeting
was called to order by the presi
dent Gene Majeske with sixteen
members present.
Bill Barratt gave a talk on the
reappraisal of the property of
Morrow county. Tom Wilson,
County Soil Conservationist, gave
an interesting report on Krelum
and its benefits to build up the
soil, the price per ton and amount
userf par acre. He also showed
slides of his trip te Canada and
Alaska.
The president stressed the Im
jjortance of everyone registering
and voting if he is 21 years of age.
The next meeting will be at the
borne of Vernon Munkers.
Refreshments were served by
the hostess.
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Rev. Alfred Shirley, officers of the
Vfaoti8, 1. O. O. ., Grange,
American LeRion, Auxiliary, O. E.
S., Rt bckahs, P-TA and presidents
of the Maranatha, Arnica, Topic,
and Garden clubs based their
choice of Mrs. PalmaWvr as their
choice for "Oregon Mother" on her
meeting of the following quali
fications: 1. She must he a suc
cessful mother as evidenced by
the character, achievements and
maturity of her Individual child
ren. 2. she mut emlxnly those
trails most highly regarded in
mother: courage, cheerfulness,
spiritual and moral strength, pa
tience, affection, kindness, under
standing and homemaking.
3. She must have a Nenme of
social and world relationship and
must have been active for her
own community betterment or iq
some other service for public
benefit. 4. She should be equip
ped by nature to make friends
readily and to mrvt propta easily
in connection with her duties as
the "American Mother."
P-TA Observes
Founders Day
The Heppner P-TA met Wed
nwlay Felnuary 13 at the school
for their Founders Day program.
Harold Bclit was program
chairman ftr th meeting. He
prepared a paper on the lite of
the founders of the P-TA. Reeket
read the first part of the paper,
Mrs. Carl McIXiniels and Mrs.
Louis Canon rend the ret.
Eleanor Rice played two piano
solos. ' Jack Yeager entertained
with some of his magic tricks.
John Ernsdorff gave an illustra
ted talk on taxes that is part of a
national Junior Chamber of Com
merce program.
The refreshments featured a
birthday cake decorated with the
P-TA emblem. Mrs. Roy Quack-
enbush and Mrs. J. R. Huffman
were co-chairmen of the refresh
ment committee.
From Pendleton
Grain Growers
ARCHIE SKINNER
Archie Skinner of Heppner
passed away February 20 at the
Pioneer Memorial hospital after
an illness of about a month. He
had lived in Heppner and vicinity
for many years.
SOROPTIMIST TO HAVE
SPECIAL SPEAKER
Major F. II. Blake, of White
Salmon, Washington, superinten
dent of Camp Columbia, boys
town of the west, will speak at
the regular Soroptimlst meeting
Thursday noon February 28 at
O'Donnell's. His subject will be
"The Unwanted Boy", he will
also touch on Boy Scout work, as
this Is their anniversary month.
All members of the chamber of
commerce are welcome and they
should make reservations with
Mrs. Mary Van Stevens.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Ashcraft of
Grandvlew, Wash., were weekend
houseguests of Mr. and Mrs. John
Farra.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Parrish drove
to Portland Saturday to spend
the weekend with their son-in-law
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond Parrish and son, Ricky.
Directors of the Morrow county
Grain Growers last week shelved
a plan for that, organization to
construct a feed plant to serve
the area. The high cost of con
struction and the possibility of
cooperation with the Fendleton
Grain Growers for the supplying
of feed prompted the decision.
The proposed feed plant had
been discussed by directors for
several weeks, according to Bill
Richards, manager of the oper
ations, but the plan was dropped
after it was decided that addi
tional storage elevators were
more important at the present
time. The Grain Growers now
own and operate four elevators
at Heppner, Lexington, lone and
McNab with a total storage ca
pacity of 1,250,000 bushels and
the. directors felt that another
one-half million bushel storage is
neettod.
Richards aaid the directors will
probably decide at a meeting
early in March where and how
large the new elevators are to b,
if they decide to proceed with the
proposed storage plan.
Investigations carried on dur
ing recent weeks by the feed and
seed committee and the directors
showed the need for a more com
plete feed service but the cost of
constructing such a plant is pro
hibitive. An alternative was sug
gested, however, with the sug
gestion that the local group co
operate with the Umatilla organi
zation. The Pendleton Grain
Growers are to remodel and mod
ernize their Hermiston plant in
March or April and both farmers
and Morrow county Grain Grow
ers plants could get service from
this source.
Services from Hermiston would
Include bulk or sacked deliveries
to farms and sacked deliveries to
the warehouses.
The Purina line of feeds, now
very much in demand in Umatilla
county would be offered to Mor
row county feeders at a cost ap
proximately the same as is of
fered in Umatilla county.
Consideration of a seed wheat
facility has been set aside until
a decision Is made regarding the
feed service,
Property Tax Filing
Slow, Deadline Near
The county assessor's office an
nounced this week that March 2
is the last day for filing personal
property tax statements and that
only about 270 of the more than
800 forms sent out have been
returned to the office.
There Is five per cent fine added
to the tax for filing after the dead
line.
Mrs. Retta Davis, who has been
visiting her sister Mrs. E. R. Hus
ton, left Thursday for her home '
in Albany.
$2530.59 RAISED
AID INFANTILE
IN COUNTY TO
PARALYSIS FIGHT
With all communities In the
county except for one reporting
In Mrs. Joe Hughes, county chair
man for the March of Dimes an
nounced the drive had raised a
total of $2530.59.
Mrs. Hughes urged any or
ganization or group that might
have been overlooked to report to
her as soon as possible as the
state organization has requested
county committees to close their
books by March 1. Additional
contributions can be accepted at
any time however which will go
Into the local fund. Reports have
not yet been received from Mor
gan which will add considerably
to the total.
Several special campaigns add
ed several hundred dollars to the
drive, with the Mother's March
held in Heppner January 31
raising over $222 for the fund.
This drive was under the direc
tion of Mrs. Jack Loyd with the
Boy Scouts doing the collecting.
Individual communities raised
the following totals: Heppner,
$1,657.98; lone, $327.38- Lexing
ton, $253.57; Boardman', $197.70;
Irrigon, $09.10; Cecil, $12.72 and
Hardman, $12.14.
The amount raised last year ex
ceeded this year's total by nearly
$150.00.