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L I 5RARY U OF 0 EUGENE. ORE . Jack Sumner Winner of Odd Fellows UN Trip Single Copies 10 cents Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, April 24, 1952 Volume 69, Number 6 pepper Accidents Injuries J. W. Harrison Dies Near Condon John William Harrison, pioneer resident of this area was instantly Kinea in an auto accident last Thursday near Condon, on the eve of his 74th birthday. M. H. Stoneman, another occupant of the car was taken to the Veteran's hospital in Portland with broken ribs and Evelyn Harrison, his granddaughter and driver es caped with minor injuries. The Accident involving the Har rison car and a truck driven by Walter Seale, occured on the Lonerock road about two miles east of Condon. The car over turned throwing Harrison to the pavement. It is believed that he died instantly. A coroner's in quest was held Friday under the direction of Marvin Albee, Gil liam county coroner. funeral services were held at the Community Congregational church Monday with Rev. Bruno Pueschel officiating. Burial was in the Masonic cemetery, Hepp ner. Mr. Harrison was born April 18, 1878 at Lincolnshire, England and came to America in 1879. The family lived in Portland for a short time, then moved to Lone rock. He lived in that area until 1918 when the family moved to Heppner where they resided until about 3 years ago. He was mar ried to Emma Evelyn Boyer, April 26, 1899 and to this union three daughters and one son were born. They are Emma Lunora Myers of The Dalles, William Lester Harrison of Condon, Cora Mildred Tucker of Heppner, and Elsie La vena Caldera of Empire. Mrs. Har. rison passed away May 29, 1913. On June 20, 1915 he was mar ried to Mrs. F. A. Ferguson Griggs. She passed away April 3, 1948 and was buried at Heppner. Surviving are his four children, and two step children,. Mrs. Jess Orwick of Heppner and Robert Griggs of Coos Bay; four sisters, Mrs. Julia Thompson Miller of Pendleton; Mrs. Maude Soule of Hillsboro, Mrs. Cecile Palmer of Harper, Mrs. Nellie Billingsley of Lost Valley and three brothers, Charles of Portland, Fred of Hepp. ner, and Francis of Condon; and one step-sister, Mrs. Mamie Der rick of Burns. His oldest sister, Mrs. Ethel Weise, preceeded him in death. Also a brother, Ernest died at 3 years of age. o Early Copy Asked By Gazette Times The Gazette Times requests that anyone having news stories or advertising for the paper call or bring their copy to the office as early in the week as possible for the next several weeks, Tom Allen, the paper's printer-pressman is a patient in the Pioneer Memorial hos pital and will be lost to the staff for a month. If meeting notices, announcements etc., are to be included in the cur rent week's paper, necessity demands that they be re ceived as early as "possible. o RHEA CREEK GRANGE The Rhea Creek grange will hold a social evening Saturday April 26, for members and in vited guests. Old time dancing will be enjoyed beginning at 8:00 p. m. Jello and cake will be served after the dancing. o Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Rosewall were in Walla Walla on Wednes day.. 4-,, i v ONE PLAN for a new Heppner elementary school that is being considered by the school board and the recently appointed 12-person building advisory committee which is trying to aid the board in finding the best solution to the crowded conditions now existing in the Heppner school. Architects estimate of the cost of the building shown above is $288,000 without equipment Whether this plan or any part of it will be used, is not yet known, though the the committee hopes to be able to offer the board a workable ex pansion program within a few week. Bring Death to Three During Week IS ' Vi I i' oft V ' Xa-afeMttftt' DR. JAMES H. GILBERT, professor emeritis of economics at the University of Oregon will be one of the speakers to be heard May 1 by several Heppner groups. Dr. Gilbert and four others from the U of 0 will ap pear before the Soroptimists, the high school and the Jaycee athletic banquet that day. Dalles Chamber Visitation Plans Completed Plans were nearing completion this week for the annual chamber of commerce dinner and special visitation of about 70 members of The Dalles chamber to be held at the American Legion hall next Monday evening. The dinner meeting, which is open to members and wives, is scheduled to start at 5:45 with a social hour for members., and guests followed by the dinner at 6:45, according to Leslie Grant, chairman for the event. The visitation by The Dalles group is one of a series of good will tours planned by that organi zation. They recently made a visit to the Condon chamber of commerce. The visitors are to put on the main program for the evening and according to word received from W. S. Nelson, secre. tary of The Dalles chamber, a full evening of entertainment is planned. The annual report of the local chamber will be pre sented by the president, Garnet Barratt. The Dalles visitors will arrive by special buses and returning that night. County Wide Health Meet Scheduled Here There will be a county wide meeting for planning a more in clusive public health program, announces Martha Tapanianen, county health nurse. The meeting is to be held on Wednesday evening April 30 in the court room of the court house at 8:00 p. m. Miss Appollania Olson, director of public health nursing for the State Board of Health will be a guest. A section of the school band will play and the Soroptimist club will serve refreshments. Everyone interested is urged to attend. Mrs. Jennie Lewis visited in Hermiston over the weekend with her daughter, Mrs. Francis Troed son and Mr. Troedson. l J". ' I - -k. - to One, Motorcycle Collision Sends Two Heppner Men to Hospital Two Heppner men were injured, one seriously, last Thursday even ing when one motorcycle went out of control colliding with a second machine just west of Heppner. Most seriously injured was Bob Christian, who suffered a severe ly crushed ankle, and Don Fred rickson, who received head in juries and extensive cuts and bruises. Both men are employees of Rosewall Motor company. Both were taken immediately to the Pioneer memorial hospital for treatment, and Christian was transferred to the Veterans hospi tal in Portland Tuesday for fur ther treatment. According to reports, one motor cycle started to pass the other when it veered slightly knock ing both men to the ground. Christian became entangled in his machine and was dragged along the ground. Lexington Youth Hurt As Car Leaves Road Ronald Peck, Lexington, was taken to Pioneer Memorial hospi tal Sunday morning for treatment following an accident between Heppner and Lexington. Peck's car left the road and rolled over. According to his physician, Peck was treated for severe laca rations and bruises and was re leased from the hospital Wednes day. Peck is employed with the Farm Air company, flying out of the Lexington airport. The acci dent happened about 4:30 in the morning. o Standard Time to Remain for Oregon Governor Douglas McKay Tues day decided that Oregon shall re main on Standard time, at least for the present, according to an nouncements from Salem Wed nesday. The announcement said that though there was a slightly high er percentage of letters requesting the change to daylight time, ac cording to the present law he could not justify the change, which must be made statewide. The statement did, however, leave open the possibility that the change might be made later, should conditions justify it. o - Morrow Streams Get Three Loads of Fish Three truck loads of fish, most of them legal size, were planted in Rhea, Rock and Willow creeks during the past week by the state fish commission. The fish, ranging in size from 4 to 10 inches, were released well ahead of the opening of the trout season to allow .time for them to scatter throughout the streams. Fishing season in this area opens Saturday, May 3. o CANCER FUND HIGH Mrs. Richard Meador, county chairman for the Cancer Drive, announced this week that $743.60 had been raised so far in the cam paign. She emphasized that the drive continued through this , month and that all additional contri butions would be appreciated, o Mrs. Harry O'Donnell left Wed nesday for a three weeks visit in California. 7:' Three Highway Bids Awarded in County The state highway commission early this week awarded con tracts for three separate road and highway jobs in Morrow county costing a total of nearly one half million dollars. The largest contract, calling for 17.56 miles of grading and 20.98 miles of oil mat surfacing of the Lena-Nye Junction section of the Heppner-Pilot Rock highway, was awarded to O. C. Yokum Co., McMinnville on a bid of $429,005. HEPPNER FLOOD RECOUNTED IN NEW STEWART HOLBROOK BOOK 'FAR CORN ER' NEW YORK. Apr. 22 "Disaster in June", describing the flood Which destroyed Heppner in 1903, is one of the chapters in Stewart H. Holbrook's "Far Corner: A Per sonal View of the Pacific North west" published Tuesday by The Macmillan Company. "Heppner's local history natur ally divides into two periods; one before, and one aiter the Flood," Mr. Holbrook says. "Still among living survivors of that tragic day is Leslie Matlock, now a patri arch, pointed out to strangers, and most properly so, as the Heppner Paul Revere, the man who rode out the flood on horseback. It required some persuasion to get him to tell me of the ride, about which he was modest. When walking the streets, however, the old hero is likely to be carrying a gold-headed cane, on the bright ly burnished head of which is an inscription, dim but still legible: 'Leslie Matlock, Presented by the Need of New lone School Building Told By Board Space needs and how the build ing program will meet them were the chief topics of a meeting of the school board, building com mittee and Mr. Hayslip of the firm of Freeman, Hayslip and Tuft, Portland architects held at the lone school Monday. The architects submitted eleva. tion drawings showing the gene ral appearance of the new build ing and the design was accepted as the preliminary form of the structure from which working drawings with final modifications will be made. The new band room will remove noise from the classroom section and provide storage space for in struments and uniforms as well as office space. The main band room will have a fully equipped stage. The cafetorium wiil serve as dining space where the whole school can dine at one time dur ing school days and will be an acoustically treated auditorium seating 330 persons for programs and public meetings. The 73 by 96 foot physical edu cation space will seat 660 persons and provide two courts for phy sical education and competitive athletics. Individual dressing rooms and showers and ample storage space is also included. The dressing rooms will also serve for the swimming pool. The design of the whole building is for improved and convenient auxiliary school and community functions and all rooms are de signed to do double duty for both school and public functions. Displays of the floor and ele vation designs of the planned structure can be seen at the school and at several lone busi ness firms. A A K Work is to start on this road with in a month and it is expected to take a year to finish. Other bids accepted included that of K. C. Dock, Milton-Free-water for grading and surfacing of 2.31 miles of the Irrigon Ord nance section of the Irrigon-Ord- nance access road, $50,940; and to Leslie Harris, Pendleton for grad ing, surfacing and oiling .21 of a mile of Spring street in lone, $5,848. People of lone in grateful remem brance of Heroic Ride during Flood at Heppner, June 14, 1903.' (The late Bruce Kelly got a cane too.)" In "Far Corner: A Personal View of the Pacific Northwest," Stewart II. Holbrook, author and ex-lumberjack who has lived there for some thirty years, de scribes the discovery, founding, and growth of his favorite part of America and tells of the people important in its past or outstand ing today. The chapter relating to Hepp. ner lists the names of several old time residents and also credits several persons still living in the area with assistance in obtaining the information around which the chapter is written. The book will be on sale Heppner shortly. o Crow, Magpie and Porcupine Contests To Start Friday in Officers of the Morrow county Hunters and Anglers club an nounced this week its annual crow and magpie contest will be held again with the opening date set for Friday, April 25. Club officers stated that defi nite rules and a schedule of points will be announced shortly, but that in all probability they will follow closely those in effect during past years except for the raven contest, in which more points will be allowed. The Hynd Brothers ranch at Cecil has donated $25 for prize money and Andresen's Sporting Goods, $15 in merchandise. A full list of prizes will be an nounced later. President L. D. Tibbies stated he. hoped more persons in the north end of the county would participate in this year's hunt as they have one of the best hunting areas in the county. Another contest is open to hunters this year. A new porcupine contest has been added to the list this year, and definite rules in this catagory will also be announced later. Count, however, will be by noses. o Goods Still Needed For Rummage Sale Plans were nearing completion this week for the Jaycee-Ette rummage sale to be held at the Pacific Power and Light office in Heppner May 2 and 3. Though a considerable amount of Merchandise has already been donated to the sponsoring group? Mrs. L. E. Dick, chairman, asked that anyone having good cloth ing, toys, housewares, electrical appliances, books or white ele phants to donate call her. The Heppner cleaners has also offered to clean free of charge any garment needing the service that is donated for the sale. They must be left at the shop by this Saturday. Heppner Musicians Take Honors In La Grande Music Festival Heppner high school and grade school bands under the direction of Robert Collins last weekend re ceived division I (superior) rat ings at the two-day Eastern Ore gon Music Festival held at the Eastern Oregon College of Educa tion at La Grande. The grade school band, which Is identical to the high school band except for two members from the higher grades who are dropped when the band is com peting in the grade competition, received many compliments from the Judges. One Judge comment ed on the complete band, "your community should be proud of you." I LWMJ i. . . , .... .jblaBKMHij JACK SUMNER, Heppner high school Junior who was chosen last Friday by the Odd Fellows as the winner of a contest to deter mine that organization's representative on a United Nations Youth Pilgrimage, an expense paid three weeks trip to New York. He was competing against three other high school students. Ronald Currin, Marjorie Pierson and DianeV an Horn. (GT Photo) Friday night, judges chose Jack Mimner, tne son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Sumner of Heppner. and Heppner High School junior, as tne nest or iour finalists In the competition for the 21-day expense-paid trip to New York this summer under the sponsorship of Willows Lodge No. 66, I. O. O. F. For his public appearance, Sum ner gave excerpts from his essay on "What the United Nations Means to Me." Sumner will be one of 13 dele gates from Oregon who will leave July 5 on the third annual Odd fellows "United Nations Pilgrim age for Youth." The trip sche dule calls for six days in New lork for close studv of the United Nations in action and interviews with officials of various delega ions of foreign member nations, as well as educational and enter tainment trips in the area. The delegation will leave Spo- JayCee Carnival Opens Saturday An eveninc of entertainment for all members of the family was assured today by officers of the Heppner JayCees in announcing completion of plans for the bene- tit carnival to be held Saturday evening in the JayCee hall in Heppner. A big group of regular carni val type games and booths are being readied for the event and committee members said that many Heppner merchants have donated valuable merchandise to be used for prizes during the evening. The doors will be open at 7 o'clock. There is no admission charge. o MEETING DATES SET Meeting dates for the Boys of Woodcraft Sportsmen's club have been announced by Tilman Juett as Thursday at 7:30 and Sunday at 1:30 at the Legion hall. Initia tion will be held during the Sun day meeting. 8th grade parents will meet Thursday at 7:30 at the school. o Mrs. Harold Hill and children, Clayton and Creagh of Coos Bay and her son, Dale, who is attend ing Oregon State College, spent Easter in Heppner with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Harris. In addition to the division I rating received by the bands several individual ensembles re ceived excellent ratings in the competition. A I rating was won by the clarinet quartet consisting of Jay Sumner, Delores Easter, Janet Wright and Jeanne Collins. Jeanne is only in the fourth grade. Also coming out with a I rating was the saxophone quartet com posed of Nancy Davis, Frances Slocum, Peggy Wlghtman and Jay Sumner. The brass sextet received a II rating, they are Eugene Ruhl. Dave Cox, Jerry Dougherty, Dick Ruhl, Victor Groshens and Ed. Brosnan, The clarinet trio which kane, Wash., July 5, and go through Canada as far as Winni peg, down through Duluth, then back to Canada through Ottowa, Montreal and New York. Spots of historical interest and national shrines will be visited on the return trip including, Valley Forge, Independence Hall, Mount Vernon, Gettysburg and Washing ton, D. C. Runner-up was Ronald Currin, also a Junior, who spoke on the formation and need of the United Nations. Other contestants were Miss Marjorie Pierson who gave some of the educational phases of UNESCO and Miss Diane Van Horn who brought forth the idea that peace would be promoted thrugh educating the world's peoples to a better understanding of each other and the problems that confront each nation. All four addresses were excel lent and showed that a great deal of thought and study had been given to the preparation of the essays. Many phases of the Uni ted Nations, entirely new to the listening audience, were ex plained. Judges for this phase of the contest were Mrs. Oliver Creswlck, PTA President; Leslie Grant, Mor row County School Superinten dent: and John Ernsdorff, Super intendent of the Pioneer Memor ial Hospital. Mrs. Lucy E. Rod gers, committee member, intro duced the candidates. Upon his return to Heppner, Sumner will be available for pub. lie appearances at club or lodge meetings to tell of his trip and experiences in New York. Sumner's prize-winning essay appears elsewhere in this issue of the Gazette Times. o Final Figures Show Registration Gain Final registration figures tabu lated early this week by C. W. Barlow, county clerk showed a slight increase in total registra tions over previous years and a decided gain by the Democrats. The complete count showed a total of 2289 voters had placed jthelr names on the lists. Of this total 1441 were Republican, 826 Democrat and 22 non-partisan, Independent etc. Though the Republicans hold a commanding lead in the county, the democratic registration show ed considerable gain Just prior to the deadline April 15. includes Linda Borman, Delores Easter and Sandra Lanham re ceived a II. A broken oboe reed caused the woodwind quartet to be rated down to a III but still received many compliments for effort as this difficult instrument's player had taken up the instrument only a week before the festival. This group included Marilyn Munkers, Delores Easter, Linda Borman, Darlene Connor and Diane Grant The Hermiston high school band won top honors in the class A competition. Other Morrow county schools and their ratings were lone and Irrigon, II; and Boardman, III. Umatilla received a II rating. 1 t r r
