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LIBRARY u or o EUGENE. ORE. Btttt Single Copies 10 cents Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, July 24, 1952 Volume 69, Number 19 No Polio Reported Here; Umatilla Has 20 Cases Dr. A. D. MeMurdo, county health officer, said Wednesday that there have been no cases of polio yet reported to him from Morrow county, though neighbor ing Umatilla county now has 20 cases on record. State officials have urged all residents to take the simple pre cautions against over exertion and undue tiredness outlined by the polio foundation in an effort to prevent further serious out break of the disease. Of the 20 cases in Umatilla county, a big majority have been centered in the Milton-Freewater area. Officials of the National Foundation for Infantile Paraly sis have assured Umatilla county foundation officers that aid will be provided the county if it Is necessary. Molheur county, and Ontario in particular, has also had a serious outbreak of the disease, though not as concentrated as in the Milton-Freewater area. Last year three cases of Polio were treated in Morrow county, two coming from the Lexington area and one near Heppner. There were no deaths. o Law Changes Now Exempt Farm Workers From Wage Control The Morrow county P. M. A. early this week received notice from the Wage Stabilization Board in Seattle, that agricultural wages are now exempt from controls. Congress, by its 1952 .amend ments to the Defense Production act, passed just prior to adjourn ment, exempted from controls, wages paid for agricultural labor effective on July 1, 1952. During recent months there had been several attempts by agricul tural employers to establish a base wage rate for this area, but without much success. Several From Here Attending Cove Camp Several young people from the Christian Church junior depart ment are in Cove this week at tending youth camp. Included in the group are Joanne Keithley, Sharon Bryant, Deloris Easter, Carol Elliott, Karen Prock, Dianne McNabb, Fred McNabb, Bobby Bryant and Wayne Soward. Miss Marie Soward, Rev. Earl Soward and Robert Walker drove over with the children Sunday. Rev. Soward remained to assist with classes during the week and will return with the group on Satur day afternoon. Three girls who attended the first week's train ing at the youth camp were Wil ma Rothwell, Vickie Barger and Margaret Hughes. o Ex Morrow Woman Dies At Tacoma Mrs. Matilda King, wife of R. H. King, passed away in Tacoma, Washington July 11 at the age of 74 years. She was the daughter of the late W. C. and Mary A. Brown. She is survived by one son Leo Nicholson of Ellensburg, Wash., three sisters Mrs. Dora Reed of Spray, Mrs. R. A. Thompson and Lennie Loudon of Heppner and one brother Scott Brown of Port land. She was born near Condon and leaves many friends. LOOK, GIRLS-A GOLDMINE! Census Figures Show County Overpopulated With Men Morrow county should be a good spot for single girls who are looking for single men, the cen sus bureau tells us in a recent oulletin giving many of the facts and figures correlated from the 1950 count of noses throughout the country. The bureau finally came up with the figures that there are 174 unmarried men irr the county ,.ver 14 years of age. This is part ly offset by a total of 386 un married women in the same age ;roup, but there still remains a woahie maioritv of eligible men. n all age groups, the men also outnumbered the women in the r.mintv hv 411. The bureau to ;al also showed an average of 1.25 persons in every household in Morrow county. Fnr nersons who desire to de ,.;rhnr thpir own statistics and 'inner uieir uwu ni" - ------ draw their own conclusions thetogether, 1110 lived in their own 1? ' NEWEST addition to the Morrow county skyline is the new ele vator of the Morrow county Grain Growers located midway between Lexington and the Butter Creek junction. It re ceived its first wheat Monday. (GT Photo) Reckless Driving Charge Grows Out Of Car Accident Glenn Sulisky, 17 of Pendleton was fined $50 and costs and had his driver's license suspended for six months by Justice of the peace J. O. Hager Wednesday when he pleaded guilty to a reckless driv ing charge growing out of an auto accident at the north end of Main street in Heppner early Wednes day morning. , Police reported the carwas traveling at a high rate of speed when it went out of control on the Willow creek bridge on north Main street. It travelled a con siderable distance before striking a power pole in front of the Becket Equipment company and overturned. The pole was broken off at the ground causing a power outage in Heppner. With Sulisky at the time of the accident were Melvin Picard and John Stewart, both of Pendleton. One of the three received a slight injury to one arm, the others were unhurt. The car was badly dam aged. Power company workmen were forced to cut off power later Wed nesday morning while the broken pole was replaced. o County Republicans Choose Turner Prexy J. O. Turner, mayor of Heppner. was chosen Monday a chairman for the Morrow criunty Republi can central committee at a meet- ine held at the lone city hall. Mrs. Bradly Fancher was elected to the post of vice president, and Mrs. L. E. Dick Jr. has accepted the job of secretary. George Ely, lone, has served as county Republican chairman for the past several years, but asked to be relieved of his duties. f o 4-H Club To Hold Benefit Dance Soon Members of a 4-11 cooking club of Condon, the Four Leaf Clover club, will hold a benefit harvest dance at the Condon - Memorial hall Saturday, August 9 for the purpose of raising funds to char ter a bus to take club members to the state fair in Salem In September. Mrs. Lloyd Bottemiller, club leader said the members have al ready raised $77.76 of the $196.00 necessary for the trip by means of an amateur show held in May Club members have refused dona tions. Dreferrine to earn the money themselves. complete report is printed. "Males numbered 2597 and fe males 2186 among the 4783 in habitants of Morrow County, Ore gon enumerated in the 1950 Cen sus according to final figures an nounced by the Bureau of the Census. The total population included 47fil whites. 13 Negroes, and G persons of other races. The median age of the popula tion was 31.1 years, while 8.8 per cent were 65 yeMs old and over. The number of children under 5 years old was 537. The number of persons 21 years old and over was 3012. Among the 1912 males 14 years old and over. 1238 were married; among the 1580 females of these ages, 1194 were married. Among the 1155 married couples living WHEAT CONTINUES ELEVATORS PLACED Morrow county's 1952 wheat crop continues to roll into the various elevators with good wea ther favoring harvesting opera tions. The Morrow county Grain Growers Monday started accept ing wheat at its elevator north of Lexington and manager Bill Richards said Wednesday that it was accepting between 25,000 and 30,000 bushels a day at the new installation. He reported the ele vator is not entirely completed but that work had progressed to a point where grain could be ac cepted, materially shortening the Heppner Grocery Entered Wednesday Another case of break add enter was reported to police Wednesday morning by James and Rod Thom son, owners of Thomson Bros, grocery in Heppner. Thomson's reported they found the back doors of the store forced when they opened the business. As far as could be ascertained no money or merchandise was miss ing. Three doors leading into the rear of the store had been opened giving the intruders access to the building. An outer screen door had been pulled loose and the next door apparently pried open. A third door leading into a store room had been opened by force, breaking the lock from the door jamb. Thomson surmised that the burglars had been frightened away before having time to raij the establishment. He said there was a small amount of money in the cash register, which was un touched, and as far as they could tell there was no beer, cigarettes or other merchandise missing. This is the third Morrow county grocery store broken into within the past several weeks. Both lone grocery stores suffered a similar breakin, recently with the intru ders taking cash or merchandise from both stores. No arrests have been made in these cases. Chfef of police Charles Gomil lion, again this week warned residents and business men to take particular care in seeing that doors are locked and proper pre cautions taken to prevent easy entrance into a home or store. He also asked citizens to report to the police anyone acting suspici ously. o Pilgrimage Delegates Are Homeward Bound The United Nations pilgrimage, of which Jack Sumner is a mem ber, started home from New York City on the afternoon of Friday July IS While there, besides visiting the United Nations, they climbed the Statue of Liberty, visited Coney Island, Grant's Tomb, The tavern where George Washington bade farewell to his troops in 1783, the automat and had a guided tour of Rockefeller Center. They also had a three hour boat trip around Manhattan Island, be sides the many different places they ate and other points of in terest they visited. Jack will be available to speak before groups about his trip, upon his return home. o E. E. Gonty and Ray went to Portland over the weekend to get Mrs. Gonty, Virginia and Tommy. They had been there while Vir ginia was in the Good Samaritan hospital for a two weeks check up. households, while 45 were sharing the households of others. The total number of households was 1464 and the average population per household was 3.25 persons. Of persons 14 years old and over, 2052 were in the labor force, comprising 85.1 per cent of the males and 26.8 per cent of the females in this group age. Of em ployed workers, 7.3 per cent were engaged in manufacturing. The median years of school completed by persons 25 years old and over was 10.6. The median income in 1949 of families and unrelated Individ uals was $2821. The data on education and in come are based on inquiries made of a sample of one in five of the whole population, while the other data are based upon complete enumeration." TO ROLL; NEW IN OPERATION haul for many farmers in that area. The Lexington elevators of the company are receiving around 40,000 bushels per day at the pre sent, and Richards stated that1 harvest was in full swing in most, sections of the county except in! some of the higher ' elevations, which are expected to start oper ations next week. The other new elevator built this summer by the Grain Grow ers at Ruggs will be In operation by this weekend or next Monday at the latest, according to Rich ards. While indications are for a smaller crop in the county( than was harvested last year, some re ports show an-even higher yield than last year. Leonard Carlson, Gooseberry rancher reported he had finished a 100 acre fiel last weekend with an average of 41 bushels to the acre. He claimed several of his neighbors had fields that show up equally well. Up until Wednesday afternoon there had been no reports of any grain fires anywhere in the area nor have ranchers yet had to worry about inunaersiorms hail. New Lexington Well Now in Use The new Lexington city well has now been completed and a recent volume test showed it to produce 150 gallons per minutH. The city reservoir was thoro ughly cleaned on Tuesday night, of last week and refilled with new water from the test pump. A new city pump is expected very soon and it is hoped by city officials that in another week the city will be using water from the new well almost entirely. Drilling was done by Mr. Jen son, lone well driller. o . Local Soroptimists At Washington Meet The American Federation of Soroptimist Clubs which is hold ing its convention at the Statler hotel in Washington, D. C, from Sunday, July 20th, through July 25th, is the outgrowth of an or ganization which was founded in Oakland, California, in 1921 by a group of civic-minded executive women, interested in being of ser vice to their community. The organization has grown into the largest, though youngest, inter national association of classified executive women in the world, with three great federations: American Federation, Federation of Great Britian and Ireland and the European Federation. These are united in the Soroptimist In ternational association The northwestern region of the American Federation, which in cludes the Soroptimist Club in Heppner, is comprised of Oregon, Washington, Montana, Alaska and the Idaho Panhandle. Mrs, Lily Ijuarnberg of Vancouver, Washington is the regional direc tor. Attending the convention in Washington from Heppner are Mrs. Clara Gertson and Mrs Pearl Devine. In addition to a heavy schedule of business ses sions each day, there will be evening entertainment at the various dinners by the Williams burg players and other prominent groups. Wednesday the dele gates and visitors will be given a play day and taken on a tour of Washington, D. C. and histori cal landmarks nearby. More than 200 members of clubs in the American Federation of Soroptimist Clubs will leave, following the Washington con vention, for Copenhagen, Den mark, to attend the convention of the Soroptimist International As sociation to be held there in August. This will be attended by members and delegates from So roptimist Clubs throughout the world. The theme of this con vention is "Moulding the Future" and will deal with the question of juvenile delinquency, the handicapped child and the illegi timate child in legislation. Mrs. Gertson and Mrs. Devine will be among those coiUinuing on to the Copenhagen Conven tion. o Mr. and Mrs. Dick Borman and daughter Lynda and Darlene Con nor spent last week in San Fran cisco visiting Mrs. Borman's sis ter, Rachel Cox, Airman 1c who is stationed at Hamilton Field air base near the bay city, Mr. and Mrs. William Eucknum have returned from a motor trip which took them to various points of interest in Canada. They visit ed Calgary, Banff and Lake Louise and returned by way of Glacier Park, Rodeo and Fair Activities to Open With Saturday Dance X y qVxAAfL V V - r r.rJ t" - " " i, i r " . . , .gM, ---- Sf , VJ ,1 QUEEN KATHRYN Campbell and her Royal Court will make their first appearance at the Heppner fair pavilion Saturday night during the Klckoff dance. Surrounding Queen Kathryn In the pic ture are left to right, princesses Wilma Daliell, lone; Rieta Graves, Lexington; Grace Miller, Boardman and Shirley Myers, Lena. Royal Court to Make Initial Public Appearance A fair and rodeo Kickoff dance this Saturday night at the fair pavilion in Heppner will open a series of dances and activities leading up to the Morrow county fair and rodeo September 5, 0 and 7. The traditional klckoff dance will present queen Kathryn Campbell and her court to the Accident Plague Residents This Week Minor accidents plagued resi dents of the vicinity during the past week. P. L. Winters, 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Winters was badly cut on the leg when his horse ran away with him and through a barbed wire fence. Thirteen stitches were taken to close the wound. Richard Morgan, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ariel T. Morgan also ran amuck of barbed wire, cutting himself severely, when chasing his bantam chicken at the farm. Gayle Normoyle, 5, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Normyle fell off "the daveno, cutting her head above the right eye. Larry Allen Basset t of Tigard who is working for the summer at the Marquardt ranch caught his clothing in the combine in such a manner that his foot was run into the wheel. X-rays showed no break but the foot was badly bruised. William Judd, working at the Wilkinson ranch, smashed his right hand while irrigating a field. All were treated at the office of a local physician. HOSPITAL NEWS New Arrivals To Mr. and Mrs Marvin Howell, Monument a 7 lb. boy born July 23, named Jackie Lee. To Mr. and Mrs. Jack Healy Heppner a 8 lb. 4 oz. boy July 23. To Mr. and Mrs. Ian Jamieson, Conc'on a 6 lb. 12 oz. girl July 24, named Mary Elizabeth. Medical Robert Vogel, The Dalles; Mrs. Neva Wells, Hepp ner, transferred to Pendleton; Gertrude Cullifer, Klamath Falls, dismissed; Mrs. Jackie Wells, Heppner, dismissed; Elmer Pal mer, Heppner, dismissed; Moses Duran, Heppner, dismissed; Phy liss Murphy, Fossil, dismissed. Major Surgery Mrs. Agatha O' Brien, Spray. Minor Surgery Mary Vander Vorh, Kinzua, dismissed. o Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Wilhite, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Creswick, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Quackenbush and Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Grant drove over to Redmond Sunday to spend the day picnicking at Peterson Rock Gardens. public for the first time. The girls recently appeared at the Condon rodeo but have made no public appearances at home. Jack Van Winkle, chairman for the dance, announced arrange ments have been made with Ken Knott, Portland orchestra leader to provide the music for the even ing. Knott, a comparative new comer to Portland and Oregon, has had many years experience In the radio and musical field. He was formerly musical arranger for several network radio shows in New York. Prior to that lie was music arranger at radio sta tin WLW in Cincinnati. He has also been pianist at several New York theaters, He will bring his "SKYWATCH" PROGRAM EFFECTIVE MORE LOCAL WATCHERS REQUESTED A report received this week by county "Ojx'ration Skywatch" directors from the air defense fil ter center in Portland states that aircraft reporting and tracking activities during the first week of 21-hur duty have proven of value to the nation's air defense sys tem. TTiey reported hundreds of tracks representing low-flying air craft and not previously picked up on ADC's radar net, have been fed into the air detection system from local filler centers. Although operations reports showed the ground observer corps was o'rating with only 50 per cent of the required number Special Speakers To Appear Next Week At Assembly of God Two special missionary services are planned at the Heppner As sembly of God church this week according to Rev. Nels Fast, pas tor. On Sunday, July 27 at 7:45 p m. Rev. and Mrs. Harry G. Downey will be the guest speakers, and on Thursday, July 31, the special sneaker will be Rev. and Mrs. Norman A. Webster. This service will also start at 7:45 p. m. The Downeys have recently re turned from eight years of mis sionary work in Belgian Congo, Africa. They will describe their work there and show pictures of life among the African Pigmies. The Websters who have spent the past four years in missionary work in Hawaii will describe the work of the church there. They witnessed the 1950 eruption of Mauna Loa and have many col ored pictures of the eruption as well as other scenes from the islands. The public is welcome to both services. o Mrs. Robert Kelly of Portland is visiting at the home of her par ents Mr. and Mrs. Ray Ferguson. Weekend houseguests of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Doolittle were their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Doolittle and son Dennis of Portland. 5-piece band here Saturday. In addition to queen Kathryn, her court of four princesses will be present at the dance. They are Princess Grace Miller, Boardman, who will be, the honoree at her own Princess dance to be held at the pavilion Saturday, August 2; Princess Shirley Myers, Lena; Princess Rieta Graves of Lexing ton and Princess Wllma Dalzell, lone. The other princesses will be honored at dances on successive weekends prior to the fair and rodeo. Van Winkle announced that dancing would be from 9 until 1 with admission of $1.50 per person being charged. of posts and that not all of these were sufficiently manned to per mit continuous 24-hour operation, reporting activities were said to lie better and more efficient than at any previous time. Heppner observers stated they were still in need of many more persons to adequately man the post here. Several persons have volunteered since last week, but that many more were needed if Morrow county was to provide a necessary link in the overall ob server plan. Anyone interested in aiding is asked to contact Ervln Anderson or Bradley Fan cher. According to officials of the Air Defense program, the reason for instituting the 24-hour watch is because the Russians could at any time they choose, send over a force of at least 400 heavy bombers and strike at important military and civilian installations in this country. They point out that radar is valuable, and is be ing used, but that it cannot pick up ground observer corps watch ers. o New Guard at Heppner Pool, Hours Changed Archie pad berg has been ap pointed new lifeguard at the Heppner municipal swimming pool replacing Bob Deter, who re cently resigned to give more time to private business, according to Dr. L. D. Tibbies, pool director. Padberg announced that new hours are now in effect with the pool open every day of the week from 1 to 5, and each evening ex cept Saturday from 7 until 9 o'clock. Padberg has had several years of lifeguard experience and Red Cross training He was previous ly a swimming Instructor at Mil waukie. o Mr. and Mrs. James Sumner will occupy the Turner residence on W. Church street during Mrs. Turner's absence in Alaska. They will remain until the beginning of school at which time they ex pect to move to Hood River where Mrs. Sumner has a teaching contract.