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LURAtT U OF 0 EUGENE, ORE. mzttt epper Single Copies 10 cents Heppner, Oregon Thursday, July 3, 1952 Volume 69, Number 16 lone Ready for July Fourth Celebration Memers of the lone American Legion this week stated that the plans were complete for the an nual July Fourth program pre sented by that organization at lone. Although there will be no pa rade this year, visitors are as sured an interesting program starting at 2:30 with a baseball game on the lone Memorial field between lone and Wasco. Both teams still retain top standings in their respective leagues, so a top flight contest is in prospect. At 9:15 one of the largest fire works displays ever shown in the county will be presented at the lone field and this will be fol lowed at 10:00 p. m. with a dance at the Legion hall . Rod Esselstyn and his orchestra have been ob tained for the evening. The lone celebration will be the only one in the county this year, with nearly all business houses in the area closing for the entire three-day holiday. Hermiston has also announced a full day of events to be held in the Umatilla county city on the ourtn. State Making Strong Bid For Tourist Dollar SALEM The state's third lar gest industry, the visitor and travel business, from all indica tions, promises another record year possibly even larger than last year's record of $121, 000,000, the Travel Information Division, Oregon State Highway Department, announced. Beginning at $25,000,000 in 1935, the travel business in Ore gon has consistently Increased each year through the coopera tion of the people of Oregon, chambers of commerce, highway associations and the Travel In formation Division. This year Oregon travel and vacation facilities have been pub licized to a total of 88,099,509 magazine and newspaper sub scribers. Full page color adver tisements have been run in such magazines as Saturday Evening Post, Holiday, National Geograp hic and Coronet Magazines. In addition many other magazines have published black and white sed; Clark Stephens, Heppner; and two color, one and two-col-.Henry Schwarz, Heppner, dismis umn ads telling the Oregon var- sed; w. E. Ward, Heppner; Shari- IPtv. vacation ctnrtr -. ... lety-vacation story. A total of 37,209,706 newspaper subscribers have been invited to take Oregon vacations this year in an advertising campaign stretching from coast to coast. Both the newspaper and maga zine advertismetns carry coupons asking potential Oregon visitors to send for free information from the Travel information Division in Salem. These coupons have produced over 85,000 enquiries thus far this season and promise to bring over 10,000 more before the end of the summer. The Travel Information Divis ion distributed over 90,000 pieces of literature last year to persons wanting Oregon information on everything from climate to dude ranches. Hundreds of these are answered by special letter with specific information on travel and vacation facilities. Thousands more are sent a 32-page four color booklet asks enquirers to write for more specific information af ter deciding what they want to see and where they want to travel in Oregon. The Travel Information Divi sion has found that the visitor industry is one in which everyone in Oregon shares and every dol lar that comes to Oregon from out-of-state is above and beyond the normal In-state income. The restaurant man shares by selling more meals, the farmer shares by selling more food to restaurants, the automobile owner shares by obtaining better highways through visitors' gas tax and everyone else shares as the tour ist dollar rolls around the state. Through the continued cooper ation of Oregon's visiting hosts the people themselves the state's third largest industry even larger returns in the future. Al ready the Travel Information Di vision is planning next year's ad vertising campaign which will invite millions to enjoy the na tural wonders of the Beaver State. And next year over a million out-of-state cars will cross Oregon's borders to enjoy the state's mod -J ern facilities and vacation pleas ures. Hospitable Oregonians will be ready for them. "No Smoking" Ban Now in Effect in National Forests All National Forest areas with in the Umatilla National Forest have been designated by Regional Forester J. Herbert Stone as areas on which smoking while travel ing is prohibited because of the fire danger on and after July 1, 1952 and extending to September 30, 1952. Camp fire permits are not re quired on the Umatilla Forest, but is a requirement that camp fires be built in a safe place, cleared of all burnable material, and that they be completely put out before being left even for a short while. Campers are required to have in their possession a shovel, axe and water bucket. All persons using the timbered areas are urged to use care to insure that no fires escape. HOSPITAL HEAD Lee Crone myer who will take over July 15 as administrator at Pioneer Memorial hospital. He re places John Ernsdorff who has accepted a position at Spokane. Valby Lutheran To Hold Picnic Sunday The 24th annual picnic of the Valby Lutheran Sunday school will start at 10 a. m. Sunday, July 6 at the Wightman Blue moun tain ranch, Leonard Carlson an nounced this week. " There will be a potluck dinner at noon and Carlson said there will be plenty of ice cream for all comers. A baseball game is scheduled for 1 o'clock. The pub lic is welcome. HOSPITAL NEWS Medical Joseph Worlein, Kin- zua; Elmer H. Scott, Heppner; Mrc Pp(t(tv T.nv Mpnnnpr HicmiQ. iyn Manon, Heppner. Minor Surgery John Nelson, Fossil; Dale Schingledecker, Irrl gon, dismissed; Ruth Robinson, Lexington, dismissed; Carl Khut son, Condon; Donald Davis, Adams. Major Surgery Mrs. Elsie Ayers, Heppner; Mrs. Iona Ham mons, Mt. Vernon, dismissed. Out-Patient James Lay, Hepp ner. New Arrivals To Airman 1C and Mrs. Louis S. Smith, Condon, a 7 lb. 7 oz. girl born June 29, named Elizabeth Arleen. v ILL ( . '. ! .'-Will lv-.' ' S ! i V ' " t "i. ' !! f ' 1 4 i ' ' ' ' s ' BETTER DEALER Latest dealership to be admitted to Pontiac motor company's hall of fame is Farley Motor company, Heppner. Shown is James J. Farley receiving his award, a reproduction of the famous painting of Pontiac, chief of the Ottowas, for whom the car was named. The presentation was made at a recent din ner for the entire staff by C. L. Messecar, manager of Pontiac's Portland zone. Messecar cited Farley Pontiac for the firm's con stant effort to Improve its dealership and widen its terricei. (GT Photo) Elevators Get First Wheat of Year Tuesday The first wheat of the 1952 crop was received Tuesday morn ing at the Lexington elevators of the Morrow county Grain Grow ers, manager Bill Richards re ported. Delvin Nelson, who lives north of Lexington took the hon ors with the first load. He was followed closely by a load from the Pettyjohn ranch operated by Ellis and Clyde Pettyjohn. Richards stated the wheat ap peared good and that while it was too early yet to get much idea of the yield, Nelson reported his would run fairly heavy. Harvest was expected to start nearly two weeks ago but heavy rains during the period caused the delay. The moisture has, however, aided materially the quality of the crop. Richards stated that if the good weather continues considerable additional harvesting will start within the next few days. The Grain Growers two new elevators, at Ruggs and near Sand Hollow have added nearly one- half million bushels to the or ganizations storage capacity and will enable it to handle this year's crop easier and faster. The two elevators will be completed short If. o Jack Sumner Leaves For United Nations Jack Sumner, Heppner high .school senior, will leave Pendle ton July 4 ior bpoKane on tne iirsi leg of his United Nations Youth Pilgrimage to New York City. Sumner, the son of Mr, and Mrs. Cal Sumner, Heppner, won the trip in a contest sponsored by the local I. O. O. F. lodge. He will join other northwest winners in Spokane where the group will leave for the east. They are to arrive in the Eastern city July 13. o Swimming Classes Start Here July 21 Swimming classes for Heppner children will start July 21 at the Heppner pool, Mrs. William Lab hart, instructor announced this week. Mrs. Labhart, who will also give instruction at Condon this summer, stated that classes would start there on July 8 and continue for two weeks. Classes here will continue until August 1. ,Though instruction will not start until later, the Heppner pool has been open for over two weeks, though bad weather has kept its use to a minimum. DRAFT BOARD MOVED The Selective Service Board No. 31 in Condon has moved its office from the City Hall to upstairs in the Butler and Devin building, room 5. o NEW PARENTS Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Jones of Rhea Creek are the new parents of a 10 months old daughter. She has been named Mareia Ann. The Jones have one other child, a son Gregory. v J GOING UP Workers are shown nearing the top of the new grain elevator being built by the Morrow County Grain Growers at Ruggs. When completed the cement tubular bins will be US feet high and will be topped with a 30 foot headhouse. Capcaity is 215,000 bushels. '' A similar elevator located 11 miles northeast of Lexington, with a slightly greater capacity, 263,000 bushles, is also nearly completed. Both will be ready to accept wheat in the near future. Cost of the two buildings was $311,000. (GT Photo) IONE RURAL FIRE DISTRICT APPROVED AT SATURDAY ELECTION Residents of lone and vicinity gave their approval to the forma tion of a Rural fire protection d istrict at a special election held in lone last Saturday. The vote was 60 in favor and 11 against. The voters also chose David Rietmann, Norman Nelson, Franklin Lindstrom, Paul Petty john and Earl McCabe as direc tors for the newlynformed organi Fire Guard Training Held at Tupper Umatilla National Forest fire guard training . camp was held last week at Tupper Guard Sta tion on the Heppner Range Dis trict. Forty-three lookouts and smoke chasers were given training in fire detection, smoke chasing and fire suppression. Instructors in this important phase of Forest Service work are the District Rangers and their experienced guards and clerks. John G. Clouston, fire control assistant, for the Umatilla Forest was in charge of the camp. Following the training camp the men proceeded to their look out and guard stations for the summer job of protecting the for est resources from fire. ATTENDS ASTRONOMICAL CONVENTIONS T. P. Mahar, Heppner, returned Saturday from Victoria, B. C. where he attended a combined convention of the American As tronomical society and the As tromonical Society of the Pacific. While in that area he spent two days with his son at Vancouver, B. C. Mahar also attended the North west regional meeting of the As tronomical League held at Port land prior to the Victoria meeting. He reported many well-known as tronomers from many sections of the United States were present for the meeting. o TO ATTEND REPUBLICAN CONVENTION n v Mitnhon vrw.ni t J leave Thursday evening on the1 irde, Loraine; A Tower of Streamliner from Pendleton for,Sif Laurence; Flint. Norrls; Cedar Rapids, Iowa where she Jime to Remeber, Douglas; given will visit her cousin, Mrs. Mildred thce .T C "o J lCPP' Rartrar Fmm Twinr Ranirt Mr Mitrhpll and Mrs. Rarcar wiirTnev continue on to Chicago where they will attend the Republican National Convention, having se cured reservations for this in April. If time permits, the ladies plan, a motor trip in to the lakes area of Wisconsin. Mrs. Mitchell expects to be away from her duties in the tax department for some two and a half weeks. Mrs. L. D. Tiblbes and Lance and Larry have gone to Mays ville, Missouri to visit relatives. They expect to be gone about three weeks. Mrs. Minnie Vaughan has re turned to her home in Portland after a ten days visit at the home of Mrs. Josle Jones, zation. The new district, one of the largest in the state, includes an area from the Gilliam county line to a point northeast of Lexington. The district runs 23 miles north and south with lone approxima tely in the center. The town of lone is also included in the dis trict as are the communities of Morgan and Cecil. . ' - , Heppner Library Has Many New Gift Books The Heppner public library has received many gifts of books and these are now all on the shelves and ready to be checked out. Gerald Eergstrom gave 27 Hardy Boys mysteries and a dog story "Big Red" for the juvenile sec tion. Other books for the juve nile section are Little Kittens, Frees; Flying Coast Highways, Newcomb; We are the Govern ment, Elting; Tobias o the Light; Early Sea People, Doppl Baby hood of Wild Beasts, McNally; Big Book of Indians, Fletcher; Three Little Bunnies, Dixon; also two Horatio Alger books. In the non-fiction are Firestone Story, Lief; We Followed Our Hearts to Hollywood, Kimbrough; given by the Bookworms club; Road to Survival, Vogt; Seven Came Through, Rickenbacker; I Am An American, Alten; A short History of Nursing, Dock; two Memorial books, Strange Lands and Friendly People, Douglas; Far Corner, Holbrook. The latter deals with our very own city and people, the historic flood of 1903, and the heroic ride made by Les lie L. Matlock and the late Bruce Kelly who broke into a hardware store, seizing wire cutters and rode horseback over the hills cut ting fences on the way to warn the towns of Lexington and lone of the coming high water. The courthouse clock has come in for a bit of controversy but it was there in 1902 and bears the date. In the adult fiction are Asylum for the Queen, Jordan; Little World of Don Camillo, Guareschl; Vespers in Vienna, Marshall; Rainbow Cottage, Hill; Break in "rl ou" OL..aLii.u:i Also Serve, Kyne; Blue Window, Temple; Treading the Wine Press. Connor; Happy Land, Kantor; Mohawk Ladder, Gerson; Forest Cavalier, Flannigan and two books given for the Sigsbee shelf, Cyrano de Bergerac, Ros tand; Red Badge of Courage, Crane; also two new mystery books. SOROPTIMISTS MEET The operations of a political campaign was the program for the Soroptimist meeting Thursday June 26. All members took part with Mrs. W. O. George and Mrs. Mary Van Stevens being the can didates. Guest3 present were Miss Rieta Graves and Mrs. W. A. Ruggles, Rainfall During June Near All-Time Record The rains came to Morrow county during June in case you hadn t noticed it! Leonard Gilliam, Heppner wea ther observer recorded a total fall of 2.74 inches for the month, a re cord exceeded only five times since the start of local weather records in 1910. The precipita tion for this year far exceeds the 1.03 inches that fell during June last year and nearly equals the Royal Arch Meet Attracts Many State Visitors Nearly fiO Royal Arch Masons from the Heppner and other chap ters throughout the state attended the fourth annual meeting held Saturday evening at Wightman's Blue mountain ranch above Hard man. The meeting opened with a steak dinner served by members of the Heppner chapter and was followed by the confering of the Royal Arch degree upon four can didates. Though the weather ap peared threatening during the day, rain held off until the end of the outdoor meeting. Present for the meeting were 32 visitors including several grand officers. Among the officers were Vernon A. Turpin, Grand High Priest; D. E. Glover, Prineville Grand Sentinel; Dave KInnear, Portland, E. H. P.; Morton E. New ton, Ashland, R. E. G. C. and several other past grand officers- Chapters represented included Prineville, Hood River, Portland, Ashland, Toledo, Corvallls, Bea- verton, Pendleton, Canyon City, The Dalles, Umatilla, Browns ville and Georgetown, Ky. o Edith Heffner Services At Boardman The funeral service of Mrs Edith Heffner was held from the Boardman Community Church on Saturday June 28th at 2 p. m. with Elder Henry Miller, Hermiston officiating. Music was furnished by members of the Seventh Day Adventlst church, Irrigon. Pall bearers were Vernon Partlow, Roy Partlow, Rollo Moore, Ralph Skoubo, Ed Skoubo, and Jack Mc Intire. Edith Richardson Heffner was born in Springfield, Ore., May 6, 1910 and came to Boardman with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Bert Richardson in 1919, and attended the Boardman public school, and graduating from the high school. Mrs. Heffner had been ill many years and had been confined to bed at the home of her step father and mother Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hooper for several weeks, passing away June 25th. Besides her mother she leaves two sisters Mrs. Clifford Christopherson, of Cornelius, Oregon; and Mrs. Ber tie Minnick, Boardman. o POLICE CHIEF MARRIED Charles Gomillion, Heppner chief of police and Mrs. Iris Shafer, Kansas City, Missouri, were married Friday, June 27 at Walla Walla. She drove out from the middle west arriving here June 25. They will live in the new home Gomillion has just completed on Chase street. o Shelley Baldwin was over from Umatilla to spend the weekend in Heppner visiting friends. HEPPNER CHURCHES "GOATS FOR KOREA' George Sellwood, Portland rep resenting the Heifers For Relief Committee, was guest speaker at the Christian Church and The Methodist Sunday School Sunday morning speaking In behalf of his organization which has been re quested by the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency to send 200,000 hatching eggs, 1000 pigs and 2,000 milk goats to Korea as its initial project. The committee is composed of Port land business men with J. J. Handsaker as executive secretary. Mr. Sellwood explained that fifty dollars is the cost of one goat or pig delivered at shipslde, which includes trucking, feed and tare, testing, etc. The Army has given permission to send these supplies into Southern Korea, far from the war zone an dcapable personell are prepared to care for them as fast as they arrive. He reports that over half of the Korean children have tuberculo sis and are starving and for that reason goats are preferred for 2.82 inches recorded for the same month in 1950. Grand total for the first half of 1952 adds up to 7.98 inches. The month's heavy and con sistent rainfall, though coming too late to bring maximum bene fits to wheat crops, nevertheless has added many dollars to the county's crop value by assuring full, heavy kernels that are ex pected to grade uniformly high. Most ranchers are now expressing the desire for some warm weather to ripen the grain for harvest. Several were reported ready to start cutting last week, but have been delayed until after the Fourth by the dampness. The Heppner area agalu re ceived a heavier fall for the month than did other sections of the county with Leonard Carl son, Gooseberry reporting 2.25 inches for June with a total since September 1 of 10.46. Heaviest rainfall for June was recorded at the Heppner station in 1912 when 3.14 Inches fell on the area. Boardman Signs New School Superintendent Boardman school officials an nounced this week that Ray G. Anderson, Parkdale, Oregon has signed a contract to become the superintendent of the Boardman schools for the coming year. , Anderson is a graduate of Southwest Missouri college and Oregon State College. o Model Club Elects First Officers The Model Club met for its second meeting last Friday even ing at Andresen's Sporting Goods with newly elected officers taking charge. Several new members were signed up and all interested persons are Invited to attend the future meetings. The new officers of the club are Don Fredrickson, president; Max Gentry, vice president; Bud Peck, secretary; Herb Ekstrom, treasu rer; Glenn Walker, Sergeant-at-arms; and George Ferrill, flight engineer. Plans were made to fly model planes next Sunday if the wea ther permits. The next meeting will be held Friday, July 11. o Father McCormack Leaves For Ireland Father Francis McCormack of St. Patricks Catholic church, of Heppner, left Tuesday by plane from Pendleton for New York and Europe. " Father McCormack will spend a week or so in New York City be fore flying across to Ireland and England where he will spend the summer. He expects to return around the end of September. A priest from Hermiston will serve the parish during his ab sence. VOTE CANVASSED The Heppner city council met Friday evening at a special meet ing to canvass the vote at the re cent special sewer bond election, prior to making a report to the bonding attorneys. The final tally remained the same, 262 favoring the measure with 51 votes against. The next regular council meet ing will be Monday, July 7. o Chet Searcy of Beaverton la spending a few days at the home of his sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Ruggles. JOIN IN CAMPAIGN milking purposes over cows as they do not contract the disease as do cattle. More than 600,000 homes have been destroyed and one village In every five in South Korea has been wiped out. Heifers for Relief Committee is earnestly seeking the cooperation of all people of goodwill in this effort to help a deserving and heroic people re establish their homes and provide for the num berless children orphaned by the war. Sellwood has travelled exten sively in Europe and spent some time touring Russia and other countries behind the Iron Curtain. He explained Communism and its place in Bible history and stated that the conditions he had seen in those countries gave him the determination to return to the United States to work for our way of life. Both the Christian church and the Methodist Sunday school do nated money toward the pur chase of goats,
