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LIBRARY U OF 0 EUGENE. ORE". Iwtte pptter Single Copies 10 cents Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, October 23, 1952 Volume 69, Number 32 Street Closure For Heppner School Expansion Talked Members of the Heppner school board met with the city council Monday evening to urge passing of an ordinance calling for the closure of D street between Court and Elder streets. The street is immediately north of the present Heppner school and the land is needed for the construction of the planned new elementary school The school district has agreed to build another street north of the present location of D street ap proximately paralleling the chan nel of Hinton creek. The request was made follow ing publication of a notice of street closure and the council ex pressed willingness to agree to the closure and substitute street, but explained to the school board members that an engineers' sur vey of the location of the new street was necessary so that ft could be included in the ordi nance. L. E. Dick, chairman of the board, indicated the survey would be made and the council indicated it would have the ordi nance prepared for reading at the next meeting early in November. The agreement to the street closure is necessary before the school board pan continue with plans for school expansion as all such plans must meet the ap proval of the state board of edu cation. When such approval is granted, the board will present the plan to the voters in asking for a bond issue to finance the building and remodeling pro gram. The council also took action to: apply for state highway funds to be used for widening and paving of South Court street from the courthouse to the city limits at Alfalfa street. The money for this project is to come from a special state highway fund set up specifically to aid cities where traffic requires better streets. The state highway department's esti mate the cost is around $19,000 and they will provide $15,000 of the amount. The council autho rized the highway department to do the work, probably next spring. An application for the special money was filed previously. o Junior Class Chooses Cast For Annual Play The Junior Class of Heppner High School is planning to pre sent "Act Your Age" a comedy in three acts, the latter part of No vember in the high school audi torium. , Tihs is a story out of patriot Ism, the story of two fourteen year old kids passing themselves off as young ladies to a pair of lone some sailors. With that type of a lead, it's a whirl of fun for complications. The following have been chosen for the parts in the play: Jery and Angy, two 14-year olds, June Pri vett and Loree Stager; Cora, a mean hand at cooking and wrestling, Lorita Stark. Helga, her wrestling partner, Nancy Eberhardt (their practice bouts play for howls). Aunt Sandra, Sharon Becket, one minute of her charming self and the next an impish brat; lumbering Gadget, Al Parent, with a weakness for girls and food; Jim, James Mc Clintock; quiet and good looking; blustery Commander Stone, Dick Williamson and a Western Union Girl, Adelia Anderson who is also assistant director. For the number of laughs per minute this is one of the funniest plays of the season and is being produced by special arrangement with the Dramatic Publishing Company of Chicago, 111. B. J. Mickelsen is in charge of pro duction. o Episcopal Church To Hold Confirmation It was announced that Sunday, November 9, confirmation services will be held in All Saints Episco pal Church with he Rt. Rev. Lane W. Barton, Bishop of the Eastern Oregon Diocese of Episcopal chruches, present for the service of the laying on of hands. This will be held at 11:00 o'clock in the morning. The Confirmation Class will be presented by the Rev. Elvon L. Tull, Vicar of All Saints. The Confirmation services will be preceded by a pot luck dinner on Saturday evening, November 8, at 6:30 o'clock in the Parish house. o Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Smead of Portland were weekend house guests of Dr. and Mrs. Archie D. McMurdo. The gentlemen did some hunting the last of week. Conservation Program For Coming Year to To Be Set Up Shortly A new approach to conservation of soil and water resources on individual farms has been an nounced by USDAfor the 1953 Agricultural Conservation Pro gram. Farm conservation plans will be drawn up by Morrow-county farmers with their community committemen starting December 1 according to H.G. Campbell, the Chairman of the Morrow county PMA Committee. The plans will be made and recorded before January 1st, 1953, instead of at any time during the year as in the past year. Assistance for conser vation practices under the Agrl cultural Conservation Program for the coming year will be based on these, farm plans. Each farmer will be notified of the date on which his committee man expects to- call on him or the date on which a planning meeting will be held in his neigh borhood. A listing of the practices most needed to restore or maintain fer tility, prevent erosion, or conserve water on his farm will be made by each farmer with the aid of his community committeeman. A decision will be made by the farmer as to which is the most needed conservation practice to be carried out during 1953 and for which he needs financial assist ance. The most needed practice agreed on between the farmer and his committeeman will be given first priority;' when the county committee reviews the farm plans for all farms in the county. Pro gram assistance funds will be ap proved first for these "first pri ority" practices for every farmer in the county who files a request for assistance. .Second, third and fourth priority practices will be approved in that order until all county ACP funds are committed. Farmers will be notified prior to the beginning of the program year of the practices approved and the amount of assistance ap proved for each. In this way each farmer will know before the beginning of his farm year how much money has been set aside to help him carry out his most needed conserva tion practice or practices in 1953. This system will avoid running out of assistance funds before the end of the year thus leaving out some farmers who badly need the help, Mr. Campbell said. o What Do You Know . . Rain! Maybe it wasn't much, but at least it was rain I Leonard Gilliam, Heppner weather observer recorded .13 inches of rain Monday even ing in the first shower to hit Heppner or Morrow county in over a month. Though it did little more than settle the dust, it was welcomed by ranchers and city dwellers alike. Rainfall has been notice ably missing since July first with only 1.23 inches having fallen in the three and one half months. o County Traffic Accidents Decline Only f Oregon counties Lane, Morrow, Tillamook, Union and Yamhill succeeded in reduc ing traffic accidents, injuries and deaths during the first six months of this year, Secretary of State harl I. Newbry reported Friday. Hve other counties reduced ac cidents alone, eight cut down on injuries, and 10 racked up im proved death counts, but the re maining counties reported in creasing traffic accidents and in juries over the same period of 1951. Morrow county had 59 acci- as compared with 63 accidents, 23 injuries, and 4 deaths for the same period last year. Newbry said perhaps the most notable record for the six months period was made by Lane county which, although heavily popu lated and faced with tremend ous traffic congestion problems, cut accidents from 2,577 to 2,518 recorded 24 fewer injuries and reduced traffic deaths from 21 to 13. Only state-wide reduction dur ing the entire period was in the number of traffic deaths, 181 as compared with 191 at the end of June last year, but this slack has since been taken-up by high tolls during summer months. Ac cidents and injuries resulting from traffic smash-ups are con- tinuing to enmo in Oregon as elsewhere, Newbry concluded. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ayers motored to Hermiston Tuesday to thejspend the day visiting with his j sister, Mrs. Roy Coxen and family J jf & if- y"JL - &.' '. , J.-- T .... V ' MORE TARGETS Pheasant hunters will have 300 more targets for their shots since the release near golian pheasants last week. Shown are Glen ward, Heppner em ployee of the state game commission, Roy Dickinson, Hermiston and state policeman Bill Labhart holding an armload of the choice birds. The Mongolian pheasant Is similar to ths better known Chinese pheasant but is slightly larger. The birds were released at various points throughout the area. The pheasant season opens at noon Friday, October 24. (GT Photo) MUSTANGS LOSE TO MAUPIN 21-0; MEET GRANT UNION THERE FRIDAY The Heppner Mustangs suffered! lilt 11 111 31 fMl UCHIY Jl II LC UWH last Friday at the hands of the Maupin high school eleven. It was Heppner's first league en counter. Heppner suffered a ser ious weight disadvantage in the game with Maupin averaging 10 pounds per man more than the local squad. Coach Steve Trukositz gave the Maupin squad credit by saying they played the cleanest football of any team Heppner has met this year. Special praise was given to Bill Hughes and Wesley Marlatt by Chamber Hears Talks On Ballot Measures The first of a series of meet ings devoted to discussion of the many measures to appear on the general election ballot was held last Monday by the Heppner Morrow county chamber of com merce. Eight of the twenty measures were discussed by various mem bers of the organization who had been assigned the task of pre senting an impartial discussion of the bills by J. O. Turner, the chairman of the legislative com mittee. The discussion will cover the remainder of the measures during the remaining meetings prior to election. C. A. Tom and Robert E. Smith, both candidates for state repre sentative were present at the meeting and" gave short expla notions of two of the measures referred by the. last legislature, o Fair Board Receives Final Fund Payment Morrow county fair board presi dent, Steve Thompson, has re ceived word from Howard G. Smith, secretary of the Oregon Fairs association, that this county; this week is scheduled to receive, a final 1952 payment of 4,155.55 in' fair support money alloted by the state from pari-mutuel racing funds. A check for this amount is to be mailed from the Secretary, of Stale's officp Thursdav. ' Morrow county earlier this year received a first payment of $8, 614.45. The final payment will bring 4he year's total to $12,800. This figure represents 'each county's share of the $160,800 ap portioned this year from pari mutuel revenues. These funds are ear-marked for fair premiums, new . construction and mainten ance. An additional $104,800 has gone to 10 other major Oregon agricul tural shows, to bring the 1952 payments from pari-mutuel reve nues to $565,600. A total of $368, 094.88 has been retained in the Oregon state general fund. Smith pointed out that without these funds most of the fairs this year would have been unable to operate satisfactorially because of increased costs of material, labor and other expenses. "If the revenue is removed," he said, "two courses are open. Either each county must raise a com parable amount by taxation or we must revert to a sub-standard fair for 4-H and future farmers only, with reduced premiums." o FATHER'S DEATH CALLS LEONARD PATE Leonard' L. Pate left Sunday for Peru, Nebraska, following re ceipt of word of the death of his father, W. It. Pate. Mr. i-aie, wno nas Deen a teacher in Nebraska for 50 years retired in 1916 on completion of 23 years as president of Peru State Teachers College. Leonard Pate plans to return to Heppner early next week. Iltl , Heppner of a truckload of Mon their coach for both offensive and defensive play. Two Mustangs were injured in the game, Rus sell Taylor suffering with a shoulder separation and Bill Hughes with a broken nose. It is doubtful that either will see act ion against Grant Union next Friday. The first quarter was evenly played with neither team scoring. The period that hurt Heppner most was the second with Mau pin's Mel Ambrose scoring twice and making one conversion. In this quarter Heppner penetrated to the Maupin 9 yard line but lost the ball on downs. Halftlme score was 13-0. The third quarter saw Heppner score once only to have the play nullified. Maupin scored 8 points in the final period with Ambrose again carrying the ball. The final tally was 21 to 0. In first downs Maupin held a slight edge with 13 to 10. Next Friday Heppner will be trying to get back into the win column when they travel to John Day for a night game with Grant Union which is an A school. Pro bable starting lineup for this game is: Jim Green QB Jack Sumner FB Lyle Jensen LH Wendell Connor RII Ron Currin E Dick Kononen E Jack Monagle T Ralph Marlatt T Wes Marlatt G Roger Palmer G. Larry Mollahan C Jaycec-Ettes Set Rummage Sale Date The date for the annual Jaycee E'tte rummage sale has been set for November 7 and 8 according to Mrs. Robert Ferrell, committee chairman for the event. It will be held at Fulleton Chevrolet com pany. Proceeds from the sale go to finance the organizations kin dergarten. The committee said that it is especially in need of toys, house hold goods, good used clothinz and white elephants and anyone having any donations mav call 2902 to have them picked up. Thev also said the Hennner Cleaners has offered to clean the clothing free of charge if it is received before November 4. It can either be taken to the cleaners I or a phone call to 2902 serve to provide the donor with pickup service. Other committee members for the sale are Mrs. Harold Huber and Mrs. Everett Keithley. o 1 F. F. A. Project Bull SoldatMidco Sale Allen Hughes exhibited and sold a bull at the seventh annual Midco beef cattle sale held Mon day at Moro. The animal was raised as part of his F. F. A. pro ject. The bull graded II and was sold to George Ward of Shaniko for $600. Three other F. F. A. members attended the sale with their in structor, James Allen. They were John Brosnan who assisted Hughes in showing his bull, Ron ald Currin and Jim Hayes who were interested in buying founda tion females. Allen also said Jim Wightman this week received his check for his three-eights blood wool fleece which he exhibited and which placed first in its class at the Pacific International. Mrs. Hairy O'Donnell, Sr., re turned from Portland Monday evening after spending several days in the city on business and pleasure. DECISION ON AWARD OF SEWER CONTRACT PENDS Soroptimist Plan Annual Hayride For Hallowe'en All Heppner school students from the sevenjh grade through high school will again be treat ed to a Hayride Hallowe'en night, Friday, October 31 under the sponsorship of the Heppner So roptimist club. Trucks will be on hand at the high school at 7:30 in the even ing to transport the students to the Cutsforth Willow creek lodge park for the evening's entertain ment according to club officers n charge of the program. One trcuk will remain to bring stu dents and football players who will return later from Moro where the' Heppner taam is playing that afternoon. Club officers asked all boys and girls to be present on time and also said that all must ride on the trucks as no private cars will be allowed. As in past years, the annual event will provide an evening of entertainment for the students with the Soroptimists providing leadership, transportation, re freshments and chaperoning. The! event has been held for several! years. To raise funds for the party the Soroptimists will hold a card party Monday, October 27 at 8 o'clock at the Episcopal parish nouse. Tickets will be available from any Soroptimist member. Names Filed For All City Positions, Heppner voters will have at least one name for every city of- fice to vote for November 4 wful the recent filing by present Mayor J. O. Turner to succeed himself for the position. He had previous ly stated his desire to be relieved of the duties as city head, but agreed to serve another term. As announced previously, five persons have filed for the three council positions now filled by Dr. L. D. Tibbies, E. E. Gonty and W .C. Rosewall. All three have indicated their intention to run again for the positions and two others, Jeff Carter and Frank An dresen have also filed. All names will appear on a special city ballot to be voted on at the general election November 4. : MORROW COUNTY FARM BUREAU TO MEET The Morrow county farm bu reau will meet at the Oddfellows hall in Lexington Tuesday, Octo ber 28 at 8:00 p. m. C. A. Tom and Robert E. Smith, candidates for the legislature, will discuss some of the measures on the November ballot. TO HOLD POTLUCK The Heppner American Legion and auxiliary will hold a joint pot luck social October 27 at 6:30 p. m. at the Legion hall it was announced today by officers. It is to be followed by a scavenger hunt. Members ars asked to bring a gift for the Legion gift shop. WAY OF LIFE IN GERMANY DESCRIBED BY VISITING PREACHER By Mrs. Ray Barnett Rev. E. J. Maisch, field repre sentative to Europe for the As semblies of God spoke to a large crowd Tursday evening, October 16, at the Assembly of God church He recently returned from a six month's preaching tour in Ger many, Sweden, France, Switzer land and Italy. Most of the time was spent in Germany. People nightly packed out what ever tent or building was being used long before a service began. In Germany, the crowds ranged from 700 to 2,000. In Sweden at a week's convention, he spoke to crowds of from 23,000 to 24,000. They seemed eager to hear and accept the Gospel. Rev. Maisch personally -dls tributed 4 tons of clothing, which had been sent by him from the Churches in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. He endeav ored to better understand the peo ple by living on their same level. The menu was black bread, tea and a little potato. He found it to be barely sufficient. His bed was a concrete basement floor with a Car Strikes Boy in Own Front Yard, Arm Break Suffered A six year old boy, Jackie Day of Heppner suffered a broken arm Saturday when struck in his own front yard by a pickup in which the hoys mother was a passen ger. The accident occurred at the home of J. W. Sowards on Aiken street when the brakes failed on the car driven by George L. Baker of Juntura, Oregon, as he drove up in the front of the house. He was bringing the child's mother, Mrs. Annie Day to Heppner and she was planning on taking the boy to Juntura witli her. , According to the report by sheriff C. J. D. Bauman the brakes on the pickup failed just as Baker attempted to stop in front of the house, the car traveling on through a fence and stopping against the front porch of the building. The boy was playing in the yard. He was taken to the Pioneer Memorial hospital for treatment. Chest Drive To Start Monday the community Chest drive will start off with a kick-off breakfast Monday morning at 7:30 a. m. at O'Donnell's for all work ers on the campaign, announces Heppner chairman James J. Far ley. An intensive campaign of the business district will be held on Monday and Tuesday, with hopes that the residential district can be covered within the week. The county goal this year is $4,000 with Heppner being as signed 50 percent of that and lone, Lexington, Boardman and Irrl gon dividing the other 50 percent. 13toOWinFor Ponies Over Condon The Heppner grade school pon ies toppled Condon grade school at Condon last Friday by a score of 13 to 0. The Ponies encountered a fired up Condon team and didn't begin to score until the second half. Condon received and began a drive only to be halted on the Ponies 15 yard line by a line play by Kay Corbin, Jerry Dougherty and Ed Olson. The Ponies hit pay dirt early in tho-third quarter when Jerry Dou gherty slipped off tackle behind some nice blocking to run 35 yards for a touchdown. Eddie Ol son intercepted a Condon pass giving the Ponies another touch down, and Dougherty's pass to Dick Ruhl for the extra point gave the Ponies a 13 to 0 mrgin. Coach Jim Peterson had praise for the line blocking and tack ling the boys did. The Ponies wind up their season Thursday with an inter squad game at 4:00 p. m. between the blues and the golds. o EXAMINER DUE The secretary of state's office announces that a drivers license examiner will be on duty in Hepp ner Tuesday, October 28 at the court house between 9:30 and 3:30. single quilt. All of his personal belongings were given to people whom he considered needed them more than himself. The German people prepare liv ing quarters by digging out rub bish and debris from basements of bombed buildings. After the basements are cleaned a roof of tin is added, and held in place with bricks. (Bricks are plentiful. Children use them for toys.) Ten and twelve people live In each room. Picks, shovels, and wheel-bar-rows are the tools used for this work. All other machinery has Deen destroyed or taken away. Much of the debris will never be cleared away. Some of the ruins are rharked with crudely painted crosses, indicating where relatives died and the bodies have never been found. Thirty dollars per month is the common wage, and living ex penses are higher than in Amer ica. A pound of coffee costs $4.00, said Rev. Maisch. He plans to return to Europe next April for another preaching tour. City Receives 17 Bids For Construction Job Bids for the construction of Heppner's new sewer system and sewage treatment plant were opened by the city council last Thursday evening and as soon as a compilation of the figures can be completed by the engineers the contracts will be awarded. The council expressed satisfaction with the bids in that most were within the estimate prepared by Uie engineers. In all instances bids were made separately for the sewer system and the sewage disposal plant and the amounts of the bids varied widely. Nine were received for the sewer system varying from $121,t67.15 up to $198,423; and eight firms bid on the treatment plant with these figures varying from $84,190 to $121,750. Apparent low bidder for the sewer system was the Charles Schmiedeskamp company, Port land with a base offer of $121,967- 15, and for the treatment plant the Atlas Construction company, Portland with a bid of $84,190. The engineers and members of the council pointed out however, that there are many items of cost in addition to the base contract bid, which .require careful study and consideration and a totaling of these figures could very possibly show one of the other firms as the actual low bidder. The engineers, Clark & Groff, Salem, are still correlating the various additional figures, so they are not yet avail able, but the firm stated Wedens day that they would be completed within a few days and will be pre- sented to the council for its de cision by this weekend. The council has many decisions to make before any contract can be signed such as the length of time specified to complete the projects, the order in which the Jobs will be done in addition to many other points. Most of the companies bidding however, stated their willingness to start work as soon as possible. Following is the complete list of bidders on the two projects. The figures shown are only the base contract and do not give the additional contingencies men tioned previously. Where two fig ures are shown, the first is for In stallation of concrete sewer pipe, the second is clay pipe. Sewer system: Everett Den Herder, Medford, $198,324.50 and $212,229.50. Coast Construction "Co., Junc tion City, $134,847 and $149,331. Charles Schmiedeskamp, Port and, $121,967.15 and $132,901.85. P. S. Lord Co., Portland, $139,- 627.50. Empire Construction Co., Port land, $176,892.50. C. M. Corkum, Portland, $198,. 423. Aflas Construction Co., Port land, $148,605 and $164,212. II. V. Carl and II. C. Werner, Salem and Eugene, $169,606.50 and $198,477. Treatment Plant. Figures do not Include equipment which is esti mated to cost about $20,000: Everett L. Wiggins, Portland, $105,421. Atlas Construction Co., Port land, $84,190. Goldie Gentle, Portland, $96,. 590. Charles Schmiedeskamp, Port land, $107,879. II. V. Carl, II. C. Werner, & II. Den Herder, $110,400. P. S. Lord Co., Portland, $91, 916. Empire Construction Co., $93, 783 15 C. M. Corkum, $121,750. Armed Forces Take Two Men From Area The selective service office In Condon announced this week that two men from this area, one of them from Heppner, left Con don October 22 for induction into the armed services at Portland. Eddie Martin Gunderson, Hepp. ner and Scotty Grant Reed, Spray were the two local residents. Two other men who were former regis trants with this board, Robert L. Hollen and George Candido Gut tlerrez completed the list of In ductees through this board lor October. Mrs. Florence L. Morgan, clerk of the board also advised all vet erans entitled to combat pay or mustering out pay that she now has the necessary forms required for such applications.
