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Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, February 28, 1952.
Volume 68, Number 50
Mass School Band Festival to
.Follow Exchange Concert Series
All County Schools
To Participate
Following a series of school
band exchange programs held
during recent weeks, bands from
all schools in the county and two
groups from Umatilla will pre
sent a county band festival Fri
day, March 11 in the Umatilla
school gumnasium.
Bands from Heppner, Lexing
ton, lone, Boardman, Irrigon and
both a junior and a high school
band from Umatilla will partici
pate in the mass performance
Umatilla was chosen as the site
because of the size and seating
capacity of its new gym.
Each of the seven participating
musical groups will play a 10 to
12 minute program and then will
present a mass concert of six se
lections. The Heppner school band, con
sisting of 44 members, only two
of which are above the ninth
grade has just completed a series
of exchange conceits with other
county schools having played at
Lexington and lone February 14,
Boardman and Umatilla, Febru
ary 21 and Irrigon on February
2G. They will present a special
program for the public at the
local school gym on April 10.
Also a part of the Heppner band
are two accomplished solo groups,
a saxophone quartet and a wood
wind quintet. Members of the
quartet are Nancy Davis, Frances
Slocum, Peggy Wightman and
Jay Sumner. The quintet in
cludes Marilyn Munkers, Edith
Morris, Linda Borman, Darlene
Connor and Diane Grant. Robert
Collins is band instructor in the
Heppner schools.
The idea of a county-wide band
festival was the outgrowth of a
meeting of music directors and
school principals held early in
February, .jVlso planned at this
meeting was the school exchange
idea-which has been well received
in all schools. Directors in charge
of the mass band festival stated
there would be no charge for the
program.
Collins pointed out that the
Heppner band was eligible to
participate in a "competition fes
tival to be held at LaGrande on
April 18 and 19 as a grade school
band if the two high school mem
bers were dropped from the rolls,
but he stated they preferred to
compete as a class C high school.
The ensembles and solo groups
will also be entered in the La
Grande competition.
Last year Heppner received a
II rating at the LaGrande fes
tival, and the year prior to that
were given a I rating,
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BAEGERS HAVE SON
The chance for a city record
went by the board early this week
when Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bar
ger became the parents of a boy
their first son. The Barger's al
ready have five girls who will
undoubtedly be happy to babysit
with tl:e young man.
The baby, named Walter Jr.,
was born February 25 at St. An
thony's hospital in Pendleton.
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Mr. and Mrs. Lonie Ritchie
motored to Portland and Scappose
Friday to spend the weekend
visiting relatives.
MISS JESSALEE MALL A LIEU,
recreation specialist who will
conduct square dance sessions
at lone, March 5 at 8:00 p. m. at
the Legion halL The evening
program will include a brief
review of calls given last year
and special emphasis placed on
new calls for square dance call
ers. According to County Agents
Maud C. Casswell and Nels C
Anderson, each organization in
the county may send delegates
to the training session.
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ustangs End Highly
Successful Basketball
Year Playoffs Next
The well-balanced Mustangs,
one of the best at Heppner high
school in many years, finished
the regularly scheduled league
basketball season last weekend
with victories over Fossil and
lone. Their record for the season
shows 18 wins against only three
losses.
The smooth working Mustangs
have averaged better than 57
points per game while limiting
the opposition to just 38 points in
fashioning their record.
In defeating the Fossil Falcons
for a clean six-game sweep of
league games, the sharp-shooting
Heppner five connected with over
50 of their shots as they hum
HENRY PETERSON NOT TO RUN; FRENCH
TO GETCOMPETITION FOR HOUSE SEAT
Henry E. Peterson, lone ranch
er, early this week announced in
a letter to the Gazette Times that
he will not be a candidate to suc
ceed himself as a state repre
sentative.
The letter states, "As a matter
of announcement to the voters of
the 22nd district of the Oregon
Legislative assembly, I do not
intend to be a candidate for the
office. I have served five ses
sions and it has been a pleasure
to serve the voters of the district
and I hope I have merited their
support."
Peterson wrote a letter from
Walla Walla where he is now a
patient in the Veterans hospital
in the Washington city. His de
cision not to run for reelection
leaves both representative posi
tions in the 22nd district open to
new men. Giles French, Moro
publisher had already announced
himself as a candidate for Con
gress for the seat now held by
Lowell Stockman of Pendleton.
Junior Mustangs
Have Good Season
A fine prospective group of
basketballers consisting mainly
of Freshmen and Sophomore
players have proved themselves
very adept at the game of basket
ball and fashioned a 23 win and 3
loss record in games including
practice and Frosh games.
The reserves averaged 45 points
per game with a total of 1190
points while holding the oppo
sition to a meager 28 points and
a 736 point total for the season.
Leading Scorers Jerry Hague
wood, 186; Bill Hughes, 172; Dick
Kononen, 169 ; Al Parent, 157;
Mike Grant, 125; Jim Hayes, 85;
W. Connor, 74; Ray Taylor, 49; L.
Mollohan, 31; Jim Green, 21;
Roger Palmer, 18; Dean Groves,
13; Bob Grabill, 6; J. Mollohan,
4; Fred Luyen, 4; Jim Sayers, 4;
Pete Andresen, 4; Ralph Marlatt,
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INJURED IN ACCIDENT
Mrs. Merle Kirk suffered a bro
ken rib and severe bruises in an
auto accident in Salem the first
of the week. Mrs. Kirk was rid
ing with her daughter, Mrs. Don
Robinson in the Robinson car
when it was struck by another
auto which reportPdly was travel
ing at an excessive speed in a
25-mile zone. The car was so
badly damaged that the Robin
sons were forced to purchase an
other in order to make the trip
home from Salem.
Returning with them were Mr.
and Mrs. Jim Morgan and Mr. and
Mrs. Merle Kirk. The party had
been attending the Polled Here
ford Sale in Salem during the
weekend. The Robinsons accom
panied by Dallas Craber depart
ed Thursday for Ellensburg, Wn.,
to attend another sale. They ex
pect to return to Heppner Mon
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Mrs. Mary Van Stevens motored
to Portland Sunday to spend a
few days in the city attending the
gift show and buyers market.
Tom Cornett and Frank Davis,
a former local manager of Turn-A-Lum
lumber company, both of
Walla Walla were business visi
tors in Heppner Monday.
bled the Wheeler county boys by
a score of 80 to 27.
The lone game was close only
during the final quarter as the
Heppner squad continually domi
nated the backboards giving lone
but one shot at a time. The final
score was 57 to 49 for the Mus
tangs. Gary Connor grabbed many re
bounds from the lone defense and
cashed in with 21 points for the
evening to take home game hon
ors. Heppner is now preparing for
the district 6-B tournament which
will be held at The Dalles March
3, 4, 5 and 6.
Competition for French ap
peared this week with the filing
for the Congressional seat by
Earnest F. Hinkle, Republican,
The Dalles, who is now a 1st Lieu
tenant in the air force. He will
be released from active duty three
weeks after the primaries. Also
after the seat is a Democrat, State
Senator Ben Musa, The Dalles.
Two Republicans have filed for
the state representative seat, J.
P. Steiwer, Fossil and C. A. Tom,
Rufus, and another Moro man,
Collis Moore has indicated he
may seek the post. To date no
one from Morrow or Gilliam
counties has shown any serious
interest in the two open posi
tions. Hinkle Statement
In a prepared statement Hinkle
said he stands for continued de
velopment of power and industry
in the area and approves of pre
sent dam projects. Water power
and extension irrigation are
needed to give farmers continued
stability. He claims the federal
budget must be balanced and
says there is "unbelievable waste
and poor planning," in the armed
forces which must be stopped. He
also stated his belief that pre
sent foreign policy ". . . must be
re-examined and more carefully
weighed.'"
Musa is completing his fourth
year as a state senator and is a
certified public accountant at The
Dalles. He was with the bureau
of internal revenue in 1911-42.
In seeking the nomination he
said he favored continued expan
sion of Columbia river develop
ment and recognition of mining
problems and potentials, modern
ization of federal tax collection
proceedures and elimination of
duplicating facilities and services
in government.
Morrow Cattle Bring
Top Prices at Sale
The Oregon Polled Hereford As
sociation second annual show and
sale was held February 24th and
25th at the state fair grounds at
Salem with many Eastern Oregon
breeders placing and selling
among the top entries. Grand
champion cow was consigned by
Kirk and Robinson of Heppner,
who also had the reserve cham
pion bull of the show. Their four
head consignment placed from
third upward in the respective
classes and sold for an average
of $1500.
The reserve champion cow was
owned by George Galvin & Son of
Centralia, Washington, a guest
consignor, and the champion bull
was bred by Roy Robinson of Mt.
Vernon and sold by the Minkoff
Hereford Ranch of Clatskanie,
Oregon.
Going down to the show with
Kirk and Robinson cattle were
two top bulls owned by Mr. and
Mrs. J. C. Morgan of Lonerock.
These two summer yearling bulls
placed second and third and sold
above the sale average which
was approximately $800. plus.
Also of Heppner, the A-l Here
ford ranch, owned by Mr. and
Mrs. Floyd Worden, entered the
show with a uniform group of
heifers and one bull. These ani
mals were among the top plac
ings and sold at the high aver
age of $1115.00.
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Leo Flowers of Tod was a busi
ness visitor in Heppner Tuesday.
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HOLLIS C. HULL, Albany. Oregon
department tommarsder of the
American Legion.
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MRS. W. E. WILKENS, LaGrande,
department president of tha
American Legion Auxiliary,
who with Commander Hull will,
be in Heppner Thursday for
district meeting.
Political Views
Aired at Meeting
At the first political meeting
held'in the county three aspir
ants for public office presented
their views at a gathering at the
court house Wednesday evening.
Among those present were
state representative Giles French
who is running for representative
in Congress and C. A. Tom, Rufus
and J. P. "Jack" Steiwer of Fossil,
who are running for the lcgisla-.
ture.
French and Tom in particular,
expressed their views regarding
taxation and the necessity for
government economy. Both men
called for continued expansion
of the Columbia river develop
ment especially in connection
with the John Day dam. Both
men pointed out what develop
ment would be made-in Morrow
county through irrigation and re
clamation from this project.
The matter of government
owned lands came in for con
siderable discussion with both
pledging their efforts to return
as much of it as possible to the
tax rolls. It was pointed out that
approximately 70 of the land in
Oregon east of the Cascades is
owned by the government, de
priving the local governments of
taxes from such land.
French stated the only way to
reduce taxes in the nation was to
get enough men in public office
who know how to say "no".
The meeting was sponsored by
the Morrow county Republican
central committee.
Defense Bond Sales
Soar In County
State-wide purchases of defense
bonds during January were over
three million dollars, which re
flects one of the highest sa!s
volumes in months.
A total of $3,020,525 was pur
chased in all series. Of this
amount 83 per cent were in Series
E bonds. Purchases in Morrow
county amounted to $77,775 in all
series.
"Aside from the increase in E
bond sales, the redemptions
throughout the county during
January show an encouraging
trend", James H. Driscoll, county
defense bond chairman, stated
"Purchases of E bonds exceeded
redemptions by 21 million dol
lars. "In addition to this," Driscoll
emphasized, "only 12 per cent
of matured E defense bonds,
those issued in January, 1912,
were presented for payment.
Since the first E bonds began ma
turing in May of last year, close
to 75 per cent of bond holders
have elected to hold on to their
bonds." I
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District Legion
Conference to be
Held in Heppner
The Heppner post of the Ameri
can Legion and its auxiliary will
be host to department officers
and visiting Legionnaires who are
to convene here Thursday, March
6 for the annual district confer
ence. The district includes Mor
row and Umatilla counties.
Hollis C. Hull of Albany, de
partment commander, will lead a
group of department officers
which includes Karl L. Wagner,
Eugene, department vice-commander,
Tom Collins, depart
ment adjutant and various chair
men of standing committees.
Commander Hull saidMhe confer
ence, which is to start at 2:00 p.
m., is for the purpose of discuss
ing problems, programs and poli
cies of the Legion to acquaint the
membership of the actions taken
at department convention held at
Seaside and the national conven
tion held at Miami. Propased na
tional legislation and state de
velopments will also be discussed
at the meeting.
Mrs. Marie Wilkins, LaGrande,
department president of the Aux
iliary, will head her group in a
separate conference (luring the
afternoon. The sessions will close
with a banquet at 6:30 at the
Legion hall.
Local Legion officers who are
in charge of the arrangements
for the day-long conference are
Jack Edmondson, Heppner, dis
trict president, Anna Lee Ken
nedy, Pendleton, women's dis
trict president, Bob Corthell,
Heppner post commander and
Mabel Heath, Heppner, Auxiliary
head.
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National 4-H Week
To Be Observed Here
Members of the 411 club coun
cil has been at work preparing
a window at the Pacific Power
and Light office in Heppner de
picting the work of the county
411 clubs during the past year.
The project is a part of the
planned events for national 4 -II
club recognition week which will
be observed nekt week.
There will also be window dis
plays in downtown lone and in
Lexington.
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State Tax Men to
Offer Local Aid
State income tax representa
tives will visit Morrow and Gil
liam county towns in the neaT
future to assist taxpayers in pre
paring their forms.
They will be in Heppner at the
court house from 2:00 to 5:00 p. m.
March 4; at the Gilliam county
bank in Arlington from 10.00 to1
12:00 a. m., March 4; and at the1
courthouse in Condon from 9:00
to 11:00 a. m., March 5.
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Among those from Heppner in
Lexington Saturday to attend the
Umatilla-Morrow District Odd
fellows convention were J. C.
Payne, Tom Allen, Emory Settles,
Duward Tash and Al Troedson.
Lodge dignitaries attending the
convention were George M. Lyons,
Oswego, Grand Master and Earl
L. Shank, Portland, Grand Secre
tary. Mrs. Allen Case returned Thurs
day from Portland where she at
tended the buyers' market. Mrs.
Case was present at the birthday
observance honoring her mother,
Mrs. Ida J. Grimes on Feb. 21 at
the home of Mrs. Carl Leathers.
Allen Case drove down Wednes
day to bring her home.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Pierson made
a business trip to Echo Sunday
afternoon.
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DEDICATION ceremonieg for the naw lone city hall building will be
held on March 15. A special program is planned which will be
announced later. The building houss". the city offices, public li
brary, fire department and shops, and Is expected to be entirely
Completed by that time.
Red Cross
Start on S
Saturdav, Mirch 1 will marl.
the opening in Morrow county of
the 1952 Red Cross fund drive
which this year is under the di
rection of Mrs. Tom Wilson, Hepp
ner. Jack Bailey, chapter president,
announced this year's drive quota
as ?2,22. up slightly from last
year, and expressed the hope
that Morrow county could do as
well as it has during recent years.
For the past 11 jcars the county
has exceeded ils quota, and last
year was the second county in the
stale to go over the top. Crook
Lex. I00F Meeting
Atfrocls Many
The Lexington Oddfellow:;
lodge last Saturday played host
to many visiting officers and
members when the district con
vention of the lodge was held
there.
A full day's program had been
prepared by 'the host lodge with
proceedings starting at 1 : 'ic. Com
mittee reports and general busi
ness were handled during the
afternoon and this was followed
by a banquet at the Lexington
hall served by the Three Links
club. The Grand Lodge was con
vened at 5 o'clock for the muuose
of conferring the Grand Lodge
degree. The meeting was opened
to the public later in the even
ing. Present for the convention were
several grand officers and past
grand officials in addition to
many other visiting officers from
lodges throughout the entire
state. Nearly 100 persons were
served at the banquet.
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March of Dimes "Kid"
Nets $S0 For Drive
The March of Dimes drive
was 580 richer Tuesday when
Iialph Beamer put up a kid
goat for sale at the Heppner
Sales Yard.
Beamer donated the goat
for a Dimes drive benefit auc
tion and before it wai over
17 persons had bid it in and
redonated it for sale. "Red"
White, an out of town buyer,
finally wound up owner of the
"March of Dimes Kid".
'Temporary owners of the
goat were Ilay Ferguson,
Heppner Sales Yard, Everett
Snyder, John Ifanna, Paul
Jones. F. Jacobs, Luke Bibby,
Don Greenup, Cliff Doherty,
Ken West, Herman Betelli,
Cene Ferguson, Sam Turner,
Eb Hughes, Randall Martin,
Harold Erwin and Rodney
White.
Ycrd owners R. W. Wells
and V. D. Wanzor turned the
checks over to the Heppner
drive chairman James Dris
coll Wednesday.
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Van Winkle DeSoto
Plymouth Dealer
Jack Van Winkle, owner of
Jack's Chevron station in Hepp;ier
this week announced hi.; ap
pointment as local dealer for D
Soto and Plymouth cars. Neithor
of the Chrysler motor company
products have had a county out
let for several years.
Mr. and Mrs. Van Winkle and
Mr. and Mrs. VV. C. Van Winkle
of Lexington will leave next Mon
day by plane for Detroit, Mich.,
to pick up a new car for display.
He expects to base both cars
available within a short time.
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Drive to
aturday
county reported in only about one
and one half hours ahead of the
local committee.
Fund drive chairmen for the
various areas are Heppner, Mrs.
Tress McClintock; Lexington,
Mrs. John Ledbetter; lone, Mrs.
Earl McCabe; Hardman, Mrs.
Huston Lesley; Boardman, Mrs.
Alta Russell. Irrigon, Mrs. Dawn
Small; Morgan, Mrs. Zoe Bauer
nfeind and Mrs. Frederick Mc
Clintock is in charge at Cecil.
Chairmen and solicitors for the
rural communities are Mrs. Floyd
Jones, Upper Hhea creek; Mrs.
Dick Wilkinson, Willow creek;
Mrs. .uiu Turr.rr, Sird Hollow;
Mix Jerry Rror-nan, Lena- Mrs.
Harry Duvall, Clack Horse; Mrs.
Don Bennett, and Mrs. Bill Her
mit, Hinton creek; Mrs. Harold
Wright, Kuggs; Mrs. Pete Lennon
and Mrs. Dick Meador, Balmfork;
Mrs. lion Anderson, Eightmile;
Mrs. Frances Carlson, Gooseberry;
and Mrs. Earl Evans, for the high
way between Lexington and
Heppner.
The drive is carried on for the
entire month throughout the na
tion. Heppner Schools to
Participate in Tests
The Heppner school has been
selected by the World Book com
pany as one of the schools the
company will use in establishing
national norms for a new series
of Stanford achievement tests.
The tests, written by leading
educators, are made up in all
subject matter fields for all
grades and are then given to pu
pils in selected schools in all
parts of the nation. By the tabu
lation of results they arrive at the
scores for various percentage
rankings.
When other schools give the
tests to their pupils they are able
to tell how their students rank
with pupils in other parts of the
nntion.
The tests will be given in April.
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Organist to Present
Varied Program
Members of the Christian Wo
man's Fellowship of the Christian
church who are sponsoring the
appearance here of John McDon
and Lyon, well known organist,
this week announced the program
which he will present at his con
cert at the church on Tuesday,
March 4.
Mr. Lyon will present the fol
lowing selections:
Prelude Alexandre Guilmant
Andante Cesar Franck
Komm, susser Tod
Johann Sebastian Bach
Gesu Bambino pietro A. Yon
Cristo Trionfante
Pietro A. Yon
Sunrise Sigfrid Karg-Elert
Pastorale Maurice Ravel
Dreams Hugh McAmis
Mountain Sketches:
Jagged Teaks in the Starlight
Wind in the Pine Trees
Cannon Walls
Joseph W. Closkey
Tickets are available at Hum
phrey's drug company in HepU,er
and from Mrs. C. C. Carmichaol,
Lexington.
A reception for Mr. Lyon will be
held in the church basemont fol
lowing the concert.
Heppner F. F. A. Boys
Feeding Livestock
The Heppner chapter of the
Future Farmers of America now
has ten hoys feeding livestock for
The Dalles show to be held in
June.
Jerry Ilaguewood, Jim Hayes,
Larry Mollahan, Peter Slocum,
Oliver Devin and Neil Beamer are
feeding pigs. Ronald Currin and
Jim Wightman are feeding lambs.
Kenneth Turner and Ronald
Ilaguewood are each feeding out
a pen of three steers and a single.
Omitted from last week's story
about local chapter members at
tending a public speaking and
parliamentary contest at The Dal
les were the names of Elwayne
Bergstrom who entered in the
speaking division and Jim Wight
man in parliamentary. Ronald
Currin also made the trip as an
observer.
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Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Neill were
I.i Kennewick last week to visit
her daughter, Mrs. Neil Knighten
who broke her elbow, in a recent
accident.
Mrs. Blanche Brown returned
Friday evening from a two week's
shopping and pleasure trip to
Portland. During her stay in the
city she was the guest of Mrs.
Venice Stiles,
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