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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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TO ATTEND REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,