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Heppner, Oregon, ThursdayAugust 14, 1952 "
Volume 69, Number 22
Thunderstorms Bring
Wheat and Soil Losses
Thunderstorms which deeended
on sections of Morrow county last
Friday and Sunday dropped
heavy rains and some hail on
scattered areas but did not cause
particularly heavy damage to the
crops due. to the fact that har
vesting is nearly completed in the
county.
Some wheat losses have been
reported from the Hardman and
the Eightmile areas due to the
heavy downpour which dropped
.91 inches of rain on the Eightmile
area in lass than 30 minutes ac
cording to a report from Leonard
Carlson, weather observer. Carl
son also reported the ground was
white with hail in some sections,
but that the fall was quite spotty.
Had the storm struck over the
county a couple of weeks earlier,
Lightening Starts
Several Forest
And Range Fires
The thunder starm which pas
sed over the forest on Friday,
August 8, sent more than a hun
dred strikes to the ground in the
Heppner district, and lookouts
were forced to disconnect radio
antenneas and throw telephone
switches. Emergency " lookout
were manned and the aerial pa
trol by Kinzua Pine mills was in
tensified.. One fire appeared on Friday,
two on Saturday and one on Mon
day as a result of this storm.
Dozens of fires would probobly
have been started had not a near
cloud burst ccurrJd during the
thunder storm. Numerous other
fires were started outside of the
National Forest boundary and
were suppressed by the state fire
organization or their cooperators.
One of these fires was reported
by John Pfieffer who was return
ing to Heppner from Tupper
Guard Station.
The thunderstorm -which' oc
curred Sunday evening, was be;
lieved to have sent only one strike
to ground in the forested area.
This strike produced a fire in the
head of Rhea creek near Martin
Prairie on Monday.
All fires on the National Forest
were less than one-quarter acre
in size.
n the northern end of the
county, lightning started a range
fire Sunday afternoon on the A.
C. Lindsey ranch in lower Sand
Hollow. This blaze burned about
500 acres on the Lindsey ranch
and approximately a section of
range belonging to Pat Carty. .
The blaze was controlled during
the night.
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Mrs. Victor Johnson has return-
ed to her home in Portland after
spending several days here with
Mr. Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Pierson and
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rauch and
daughter, Kay, spent the weekend
at the Bucknum cabin on Willow
creek.
Old Papers Turn Up Interesting
Facts About Early Happenings Here
While' doing some research into"
the past, 0. M. Yeager, Heppner,
came across several articles ap
pearing in the Heppner Gazette,
the Long Creek Eagle and the
Lexington Weekly Budget of
many years past.
He copied off several of the
choicest bits of news and adver
tising thinking that present day
readers might like to know some
of the happenings in the area be
fore the turn of the century.
Excerpts from the "Long Creek
Eagle", Grant County. Oregon,
February 20, 1894.
There are evidently some sneak
thieves hanging around Heppner.
One night this week Mrs. Wilkins
had a lot of gentleman's under
clothing stolen off the line on her
premises, and C. E. Fell's hen
roost has been visited until there
now remains but three birds to
roost there-in.
Advertisement same paper
HEPPNER-CANYON
Stage-line
J. C. Delvan, Prop.
Stage leaves each place daily,
except Sunday. This is the most
direct route from the interior to
Portland, and cheaper by several
dollars than any other line. New
stock and new vehicles. Excellent
accommodations for commercial
men.
Coxey's army of tramps are
still on the march for the nations
capital.
the wheat losses would have been
considerable, according to re
ports. Hardest hit by the hail were
Everett Harshman, Hardman and
Leonard Rill and the Mankin
Bunch ranch both in the Eight
mile section. No definite losses
had yet been established in any
of the cases.
Greatest loss according to
several observers who had covered
the storm area, occurred in the
heavy washing of summer fallow.
There were many instances" of
heavy ruts being washed in
fields. The storm hit along a
narrow strip from above the Con
don highway to northwest of the
Eightmile junction. The accumu
lated water brought a torrent
down Eightmile canyon washing
out two or three small bridges
cutting roadbeds and tangling
fences. In some sections of the
normally dry canyon the water
flowed more than six feet deep.
At numerous points along the
mud covered sections of the road
several hundred feet in length.
The Sunday storm caused the
heaviest damage in the Morrow
county section, and it occurred at
approximately the same time as
did a similar one in the Yakima
valley which cost at least three
lives and did millions of dollars
damage.
Edward Alfred Kelly
Services Held Tuesday
Funeral services were held on
Tuesday August 12 for Edward
Alfred Kelly who died August 8
at the Pioneer Memorial hospital
after a brief illness. The services
were at the Methodist church with
Rev. J. Palmer Sorlien officiating.
Interment was in the Masonic
cemetery.
He was born in Edwall, Wash
ington February 22, 1888 and was
married to Lena Hughes In Pen
dleton August 27, 1921. He had re
sided in Heppner for 31 years and
was a member of the Oddfellows
lodge.
Survivors include his wife
Lena, two daughters Eileen Sal
ing and Katherine Robinson both
of Heppner, one son Robert of
Kimberly; two brothers P. A.
Kelly, LaGrande, and Harry Kelly
of Wellington, Utah; two sisters,
Mrs. Gaylord Nelson, Mason City,
Wshington and Mrs. Dell Carey,
Seattle and his step father Lor
nee Ringle of Walla Walla.
He also left eight grandchild
ren. Heppner Boy Hit by
Car, Injuries Slight
Chris Labhart, small son of Mr.
and Mrs. William Labhart, was
injured Tuesday when he was
struck by a car driven by Mrs. Ted
Pierson. According to witnesses,
the child, intent upon crossing
Church street to play with the
neighbor's children, darted in
front of the Pierson car. He re
ceived several lacerations on his
head and a badly bruised back
but his injuries were not consid
ered to be serious.
Taken from the Lexington Week
ly Budget, Lexington, Thursday,
Dec. 12, 1899
Advertisements
LOST Several Chronic Croak
ers who have been in the habit of
constantly abusing this county
as a farming district.
Finder will please keep under
lock and key.
Wanted Practical men to inves
tigate the advantages of Lexing
ton as a location for a sorgum
mill
Personal To reach the best lo
cality for business or farming
take the Willow Creek branch at
Arlington and buy your ticket to
Lexington.
Wanted Men of Life, Vim, and
Energy to locate in Lexington and
prevent moss from taking root.
Settlers Any ONE KNOWING of
a vacant government quarter and
wanting a good neighbor thereon
should inform the Budget office.
The Goods Were Sold.
The other day a traveling ped
dler of notions, laces, etc, who
had been making a tour of the
county, found his stock was low,
"Its a cold day when a Sheeny
gets left", and as long as he
could find buyers he was going
to have something to sell. So he
replenished his stock at the Lex
ington Stores and then called at
the residences selling the same
goods to the ladies, including the
wives of some of the merchants
James Driscoll
Named New Polio
Chapter Chairman
James Driscoll, Heppner post
master, was elected new chair
man of the Morrow county chap
ter of the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis at a meeting
of the organization held Monday
evening at the court house. He
succeeds Jack Edmondson who
has served as head for the past
year.
Other officers chosen to serve
for the coming year are Harry
Duvall, vice chairman; Miss Col
leen Connor, secretary and Robert
Ferrell, treasurer.
Present at the meeting was
Gene Malecki, Oregon representa
tive of the national organization,
who announced that a state pre
campaign meeting for the March
of Dimes chairmen will be held
in Portland on September 18. He
also told the group that plans are
progressing for hospitals in this
area to become equipped to care
for polio patients so that it will
not be necessary to send them to
Portland. St. Anthony s hospital
in Pendleton is preparing for such
care he said.
Jack Edmondson reported on a
recent meeting of the national as
sociation at San Francisco where
much was learned about accept
ed methods of treatment and the
methods of combatting polio.
Martha Tapaninen, county
health nurse reported there have
been only two'eases of polio re
ported from Morrow county so
far this year, compared for three
for each of the past two years.
. The group also decided that the
executive committee shall consist
of the four officers and six other
elected members. The additional
members to be elected at the next
regular meeting of the chapter to
be called in October.
Plans for the 1952-53 March of
Dimes were discussed and ar
rangements are" being made to
carry on an even more active
campaign next year, especially in
the rural areas through the help
of the granges.
Chamber Sees Film
On Road Improvement
Chamber of commerce members
Monday saw a special film on the
need for better highways through
out the nation which has recently
been released by General Motors
corporation.
The film, presented by Don Hoi
brook, Chevrolet representative
from Portland, and obtained
through the efforts of Royce Ful
leton, Heppner Chevrolet dealer,
depicted the delays and addition
al expenses created by poor roads
and traffic tieups.
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MOTHER PASSES
Miss Martha Tapanainen, Mor
row county health nurse, was
called to Vancouver, Wash., Tues
day evening by the sudden death
of her mother, Mrs. Jacob Tapa
nainen of that city.
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Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Chapel and
daughter, Ida Lee, were business
visitors in Pendleton Saturday.
from whom he had purchased
them. Considerable amusement
resulted when the facts came out,
but the laugh was not on the
peddler.
Keep your eyse on Morrow
County.
Lexington is the coming town,
and Morrow will be the next
county to boom into prominence.
Adv. Take your five-gallon oil
cans to the City drug store and
have them filled with coal oil for
$1.65 each.
To the Budget's knowledge four
teen births occurred in Morrow
County last month six girls and
eight boys. Not bad for a dry
season.
Suppose the Hunt railroad
should.strike out by way of Fos
ter, across Morrow County,
through Lexington and Fossil,
and connect with the Oregon Pa
cific. Why not? Keep both eyes
on Lexington.
Advertisement You will find
GOOD ACCOMMODATIONS at
the "Lexington Hotel" J. W. Red
ford propr.
Heppner Gazette
Nov. 6, 1890
While climbing high up in a
hen roost last Thursday night,
Dr. Shipley fell, bruising himself
some. Since writing the above,
we deem it advisable to say that
the doctor was in his own hen
roost.
Princess Rieta
Lexington's Princess
Fifth From Her Family
To Be Named Royaty
Rieta Graves, 5 foot 4 xk inch red
haired, hazel eyed Fair and Rodeo
princess in who's honor the Lex
ington grange is sponsoring this
Saturday's Princess Dance at the
fair pavilion, comes from a long
line of Morrow county fair royal
ty. She is the fifth member of her
family to be so honored.
Princess Rieta: who graduated
from Heppner high school this
spring, was preceeded in her
royal role by her mother, Mrs.
Doris Wilcox Graves, two sisters
who were also princesses, Betty
Carlson and Jo Anne Pettyjohn
and by an aunt, Eva Wilcox Bros
ton, who reigned as queen in the
years past. Princess Rieta was a
logicai choice as a member of
this year's royal court.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John Graves, Sandhollow wheat
and cattle rancher, Rieta, who is
17, is the decendent of a pioneer
family of Morrow county. Her
great grandfather Joe Eskelson,
helped build the railroad to Hepp
ner, and following its comple-
Earl Evans Injured
When Combine Tips
Earl Evans was injured Tues
day afternoon when the combine
on which he was riding over
turned, pinning him beneath. The
machine, operated by Harvey
Wright, turned over when the
leveller inadvertently locked.
Evans' legs were badly bruised
and the ligaments torn, but X
rays showed no broken bones.
They were working in a field at
the Kirk. and Robinson ranch in
Blackhorse when the accident oc
curred. State To Oil Road
Near Boardman
The state highway department
will receive bids August 19 for
grading, surfacing and oiling .62
of a mile of a connecting leg be
tween the newly constructed Col
umbia river highway and the
Boardman-Stanfield highway
about three miles east of Board
man. The connection will have a 20
foot oiled surface with two foot
shoulders and has been designed
for convenience of traffic inter
changing between the two high
ways from the north and east,
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BLAZE BURNS GRASS
Heppner firemen, answering
their first fire call in over a
month, last Thursday evening
controlled a small grass fire that
burned a small area of the hill
side at the west end of Center
street near the David Wilson
home.
Though the fire burned up to
several buildings no damage re
sulted. o
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Pumphrey
of Echo and her mother, Mrs
Louise Ritchie of Pendleton
visited friends In Heppner over
the weekend.
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Craves, Lexington
tion took out a homestead in the
Lexington district.
Not content to rely on past his
tory and family recognition, she
made her own mark while a
student at Heppner where she was
secretary of the student body and
the student council president of
the Pep club and the Letter Ettes;
a member of the Girls' League,
FHA and drill team; manager of
the school paper and class editor
of the annual. In addition she
was a cheerleader and played on
the girls' volleyball and tennis
teams and in the band. She is
also a member of the Rainbow
girls.- Upon graduation she was
awarded the Carl Raymond Guy
411 scholarship to attend the Ore
gon State college this fall.
In addition to her school activi
ties she has been a 4-H club mem
ber for nine years and has coun-
ciled at 411 summer camp.
Princess Rieta is a good horse
woman and helps with cattle on
the ranch. She also helps with
the cooking during harvest and
can drive wheat truck if called
upon. She claims sewing her
own clothes as a hobby.
Last year during the Rodeo she
was a pennant bearer, riding her
favorite horse "Nig". Visitors this
year will again see her op on him,
as a princess. .
Dancers who come to honor her
Saturday night will enjoyt the
music oi rne renaieton four ana
Ray Whitman.
Seventh Day Advents
Have New Pastor
Norvell Brown has arrived in
Heppner from Ocean Side, Call
fornia to assume his duties as
pastor of the Seventh-Day Adven
tist church here. He is a gradu
ate of Walla Walla College at
College Place, Washington and
has just ' completed several
months training at the seminary
in Washington, D. C. Brown is
married and has two children.
R .Knauft, who has been the
pastor here, will go to Colfax,
Washington where he will be the
district superintendent for the
church. He has Just returned
from eight weeks at the church
youth camp at Mivoden, at Hay
den Lake, Idaho.
Wranglers Lay Plans
For Horse Show
Wranglers laid plans for the
horse show to be held during the
Rodeo at their regular monthly
meeting Tuesday evening. How
ard Bryant, presiding officer, ap
pointed committees to carry out
the various phases of the show,
a regular event sponsored by the
group.
The evening's program includ
ed pictures of the recent Winches
ter overnight ride, and also mov
ies of last year's rodeo. They were
shown by Mr. and Mrs. William
Collins.
Refreshment committee for the
evening was Mrs. Bill Smethurst,
Mrs. Jim Lindsay and Mrs. Merle
Kirk.
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Additional Pumping Needed
To Obtain Good Water Test
Reports received this week on
laboratory tests made on water
samples from the new Heppner
well, showed the water readily
passable for hardness, but not
quite up to par for purity.
Council members didn't feel
too concerned over the purity re
port, however, as they pointed out
the breakdown of the mineral and
solid content of the water indi
cated the test sample had been
taken too early after pumping
had started. They felt an addi
tional period of pumping would
be necessary to completely clean
Names Still Needed
For Hospital's File
Of Blood Donors
Last week's request from Pio
neer Memorial hospital for the
names of additional blood donors
resulted in several persons sign
ing up to offer their blood when
needed, but Lee Gronemyer, hos
pital administrator, said this
week that more names are still
needed.
The hospital is unable to carry
a stock of plasma and must rely
on donors for whole blood when
required.
Gronemyer asked that anyone
willing to offer his blood call the
hospital for an appointment for
typing.
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lone Man Seriously
Injured in Wreck
William A. Rowel 1, 25, lone is
in the Pioneer Memorial hospital
following an auto accident Wed
nesday morning a short distance
East of lone In which his car left
the road and overturned. By Wed
nesday evening he had not re
gained consciousness.
According to an attending phy
sician, Rowell suffered a concus
sion and possibly a skujl fracture
in addition to a fractured collar
bone. His condition was listed as
serious.
Rowell had been working in
lone for some time and is the
son-in-law of Cleo Drake.
Rowell was alone in the car at
the time of the accident;
Over 30 Blocks of
Streets Resurfaced
Leslie Harris, Pendleton paving
contractor, early this week com
pleted sealing of over 30 blocks
of Heppner streets. The sealing
is designed to prevent breakup
of present pavement.
Streets in nearly all sections of
town received the new surfacing,
the council selecting the ones in
need of immediate care to prevent
complete breaking up. The coun
cil plans to continue the sealing
program each year until all the
streets have received the treat
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Jack Rabbit Paradise
Removed By Blaze
A controlled burn of about 350
acres of heavy sagebrush land be
longing to A. C. Lindsey In Sand
Hollow last Tuesday, not only
cleared out lots of sagebrush but
also brought on a mass movement
of Jack rabbits from the section,
according to N. C. Anderson, the
county agent who assisted with
the fire.
The burn, intended to clear the
land for seeding to crested wheat
grass as part of a range im
provement plan, drove out a
cloud of "jacks" which would
have made excellent shooting.
Anderson said his only complaint
was that he forgot to take his gun
along.
The displaced jump bunnies
also lost over 1000 acres of addi
tional forage Sunday, when the
lightning started a range fire In
the same area.
Heppner Serviceman
Returning From Korea
With the 45th Infantry Div- in
Korea Cpl, Jack E. Barlow, of
Heppner, Oregon recently left the
45th Infantry Division In Korea
for return to the United States
under an Army rotation program.
His division, an Oklahoma Na
tional Guard unit, was called to
active duty In September 1950
and trained at Camp Polk, La.,
and on Hokkaido, Japan. The di
vision arrived in Korea last De
cember. Corporal Barlow served as a
tractor mechanic in Battery C,
189t h Field Artillery Battalion. He
has been awarded the Japan Oc
cupation Medal, the Korean Ser
vice Ribbon with one campaign
tstar and the United Nations
Service Ribbon.
Barlow entered the Army In
October 1950.
the well, after which another test
will be made.
Mayor J. O. Turner stated the
sample was taken after about
four hours of pumping, and while
the water appeared clear and
clean, the hardness tests showed
a considerable amount of drill
ings and dirt still remained to be
removed.
The council plans to pull a
pump from one of the two pre
sent wells further up Willow
creek and have it completely
overhauled. It will then be in
stalled in the new well and oper
ated continuously or at least a
week to give the well a thorough
test and to remove all dirt and
foreign matter. Another test
sample will then be sent to the
laboratory.
Even with the short pumping
given the well last week, the
water only lacked passing the
purity test by smll margin.
After testing is complete and the
water OK'd it will be connected
into the city system. Its capacity
is over 500,000 gallons per day,
ample to supply all the city's
needs.
Mrs. Fred Lucas
Services Held
Here Last Monday
Funeral services were held on
Monday, August 11 at Heppner
for Mrs. Frederick Lucas, who
passed away, August 7 in Seattle.
Clothild Love Lucas was born
September 23, 1883, at Wasco,
Oregon, and the early years of
her life were spent on the nearby
family farm. Her education was
begun in the local public schools,
and completed at St. Mary's Acad
emy In The Dalles, Oregon.
On July 26, 1899 she was mar
ried to John Frederick Lucas. To
this union four children were
born, Franklin Ray, Frederick Jay,
Thelma Love Fortner, and Lavelle
L. Less.
In 1903 Mr. and Mrs. .Lucas
came to Heppner, where they re
sided until 1951, when they moved
to North Bend, Washington. Dur
ing their long residence in Hepp
ner, Mr. and Mrs. Lucas acquired
a host of friends, and became
widely known for their wonderful
hospitality as proprietors of the
"Lucas Place Hotel."
"Clothild", to all who knew her,
Mrs. Lucas was very active in the
social and community life of
Heppner, and Morrow County,
down through the years. She was
a member of All Saint's Epicsopal
church, the Episcopal Women's
Auxiliary, the Order of the East
ern Star, and the Morrow County
Republican Central Committee.
Death came quietly, on August
7, 1952, after a brief illenss.
She is survived by her husband,
two daughters, seven grandchild
ren, and eleven great grandchild
ren. Burial was from All Saint's
Episcopal Church, and interment
at the Masonic Cemetery in Hepp
ner, Oregon.
September 30 Deadline
For Federal Crop
Insurance Signup
The Morrow County PMA office
would like to remind those far
mers who have not yet applied
for crop insurance that the dead
line for signing up is September
30th.
With farming expenses con
tinuing at a high level and the
causes of damage undiminished,
crop insurance points a safe way
out for wheat growers in Morrow
County. Crop insurance essenti
ally assures the farmer the re
turn of his crop Investment from
all hazards. It also fortifies
c redit as policies are assignable
for most credit needs.
In 1952 the net acreage covered
under crop insurance was 118,601
acres, with a total harvested
coverage of 1,480,062 bushels, and
an lnsurred value of $2,198,8-11.78.
Morrow County also had a 30
county wide discount for all of
the policyholders who had been In
the program over one year as at
the end of 1951 the county had
met its minimum reserve.
In 1952 growers were paid for
claims for damage to their wheat
crop. The causes were drought,
hail, and hot winds, which were
chiefly responslbile for most of
the damage.
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PRACTICE SET
Stephen Trukositz. new Hepp
ner high school coach announced
this week that football practice
will start on Tuesday, August 26.
He asks those Interested in turn
ing out this year meet at the
gym at 2 o'clock that day.