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L I 8RARY U OF 0 EUGENE. 02 wmnmx Single Copies 10 cents Heppner Oregon, Thursday, November 6, 1952 Vol ume 69, Number 34 ' , " j i d ! ! 'ti f 1 V N i ( ; - i. A" ' " Jy MR. PRESIDENT Choice of the American people to guide the desti nies of the nation for the next four years. In his victory over Governor Adlai Stevenson, General Dwight D. Eisenhower polled one of the heaviest pluralities the title, Mr. President, is not inauguration early in January, doubt but that America would soon bestow it upon him. i: : mi : I VSE. A A A : tV vv .lit i VICE PRESIDENT Richard M. Nixon, who will take over the second highest position in the land as running mate and right hand man for General Ike. His campaign was full of surprises and near tragedy, but he vindicated himself in the eyes of the public and went on to win. i.i-irSi.1,,' EARL T. NEWBRY Who despite ... a last minute smear campaign against" him handily defeated Democrat Edith S. Green to re main Oregon's secretary of state. i ill? si" 'J c ' ONE NEW CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, TWO INCUMBENTS GIVEN VOTER NOD One new face will appear on the Heppner city council the first of the year and two of the incum bent members were returend to their seats by verdict of the votes Tuesday. The new member will be Jeff Carter, J. C. Penney company manager who was given the seat which had been held by E. E. Gonty. Returned were W. C. Rosewall and Dr. L. D. Tibbies. All were elected to a four year term. Also returned for another term were mayor J. O. Turner and Elizabeth Dix, city recorder and LaVerne Van Marter, treasurer. All were unopposed for the posi ever given any president Though technically correct until after his his overwhelming victory left no SIG UNANDER Who finally got his campaign slogan, "You Unander, and Oregon" all to gether to win the race for state treasurer from his Democratic opponent Francis Lambert. tions. Final tabulation gave the fol lowing figures: Tibbies, 477 Rosewall. 363 Carter, 319 Gonty, 220 Andresen, 165 Turner, Mayor 467 Dix, Recorder 501 . Van Marter, Treasurer 538 o The Altar Society of the Catho lic Church will hold a bazaar, silver tea and dinner at the church Saturday afternoon and evening. CALLj County Count Roads nc Hospital Levies Get Heavy "Yes" Votes Morrow county voters gave overwhelming approval to the two county measures last Tuesday when they OK d the measure to continue the 10 mill levy for road improvement and the 5 mill tax for the construction of an au dition to the Pioneer Memorial Hospital in Heppner. Final counting showed the road tax approved by a vote of 1082 to 682, and the hospital levy pass ing with a margin of 1137 to 644. The road tax measure will con tinue for another five years the present levy of 10 mills and the hospital levy will run for only one year and is expected to raise about $70,000 which will be matched in part by federal funds and will be used to construct ad ditional rooms for 15 hospital beds as well as an equal number of beds for nursing patients. The precinct vote on the two measures follows: ROAD LEVY Yes No N. Heppner 265 156 S. Heppner 238 147 Lexington 134 65 Hardman 22 12 Irrigon 116 92 lone 175 140 Boardman 132 70 HOSPITAL LEVY Yes No S. Heppner 325 106 N. Heppner 282 113 Lexington 140 62 Hardman 21 13 Irrigon 71 131 lone 190 139 Boardman 108 100 Grain Growers lo Hold Annual Meet "We are expecting a good sized crowd at our annual meeting on Monday, November 10th, said Lloyd . Howton, President of the Morrow County Grain Growers. The meeting will commence with a free lunch at '12:00 noon, at the Fair Pavilion. All members and patrons are cordially invited. The Rhea Creek Grange is in charge of the serving. The business meeting will be held following the lunch. Three new directors are to be elected for a two-year term. Terms of Henry Baker, Terrel Benge, and Lloyd Howton expire. President Howton continued to say. "This is a very important meeting. We will review our year's operation and we have a number of future problems to dis cuss with our members. In the past year, we have expanded our services by building two new highway elevators. We expect to continue improving service. It is important that every member be present at this annual meet ing." Creswick Gets Coroner Job From McMurdo Oliver Creswick, Heppner mor tician, unseated Dr. A. D. Mc Murdo for the post of county coroner in the only county office for which there was a contest. McMurdo, who ran as a demo crat had held the position for many years. The vote was Creswick, 109O; McMurdo, 846. Floyd Grabill of Milton-Free water was in Heppner Sunday visiting with his brother Bob Gra bill. Final Figures Show Unofficial but complete figures from all of Morrow county's seven voting precincts gave the follow ing totals: For President and vice president Eisenhower-Nixon, 1254 Stevenson-Sparkman, 786 Hallinan-Bass, 5 For Representative in Congress, Second district Sam Coon 1104 John Jones 807 For Secretary of State Earl T. Newby 1185 Edith S. Green 795 For State Treasurer Francis Lambert 772 Sig Unander 1048 For Attorney General John B. McCourt 854 Voters - A'- X) )!7 SAM COON Republican state senator who easily outdistanced his Democratic opponent, John G. Jones to become the second district's nextvrepresentative in congress. t 4-H Achievement Parties Planned Plans are completed for a ser ies of Morrow county 4-H club achievement parties to be held this weekend at Boardman and Heppner according ' to 'county agents N. C. Anderson and Maud Caswell. The oardman parfy will be held thfe Friday evening and the Heppner dinner on Satur day evening atMhe fair pavilion. Both are to start at 6:30 p. m. with a potluck dinner. . Recognition will be given to a great number of 4-H club mem bers who have completed pro jects during the year. Of the 36 clubs in the county, 25 of them are classified as 100 clubs, hav ing completed all their projects. Also to be given recognition for their work and the number of years that they have been active in 4-H work are the following number of members: 1 year, 61; 2 years, 29; 3 years, 33; 4 years, 24; 5 years, 11; 6 years, 8; 7 years, 7; 8 years, 1; 9 years, 1; 10 years 2. F. F. A. Boys to Fix Up Christmas Toys Heppner residents who have old toys they are through playing with are a.sked to notify mem bers of the Heppner Future Far mers of America who will pick up them and repair them for Christ mas gifts for needy children. The F. F. A. boys will do the work between now and Christmas and stated that churches will have first chance on the renewed toys, but felt certain that with ample donations they would be able to supply all that are re quired locally. Anyone who has any toys, re gardless of their condition, is asked to call the Heppner school, phone 32. STORES TO CLOSE ARMISTICE DAY The merchant's committee of the Chamber of Commerce have recommended that the stores close on Armistice Day as they have in the past. The schools, bank, county and federal offices, liquor store and post office will be closed for the holiday. Robert Y. Thornton 936 For Representative, 22nd District Robert E. Smith 855 J. P. Steiwer 913 Charles Allen Tom 1262 For County Commissioner Russell K. Miller 1722 For County Clerk C. W. Barlow 1784 For County Sheriff C. J. D. Bauman 1822 For County Coroner Oliver W .Creswick 1096 Drj A. D. McMurdo 846 For County Surveyor Harry Tamblyn 1552 MEASURES Amendment making superinten dent of public instruction appointive- Follow Heaviest Vote In History is Cast in Area Morrow county voters, along with those in the rest of the na tion, turned out in greater num bers than ever before to choose a new president, a slate of Repub lican representatives and to ex press their opinion on a host of state and county measures. With few exceptions, local vot ers followed the trend of the rest of the slate and most of the na tion in naming Republicans to nearly all posts. The only Demo crat to win the nod in the county was Robert Y. Thornton in the race for state attorney general. His contest with John B. McCouft has been nip and tuck and though he now holds a very slight edge over his Republican oppon ent, it is probable that a de cision must await complete re turns from the entire state. In all other races for state and congressional seats Morrow county followed the general trend in the state. On all state measures except the legislative reapportionment measure county voters were also in accord with the rest of the state. Of this one local tallies showed this area urging defeat of the bill by better than two to one majority, whereas the state count indicated the bill would pass bv a sizeable margin. HEAVIEST VOTE While a heavy vote throughout the entire nation had been pro phecied by many persons, it is believed the turnout in Morrow county exceeded the state and national average. An unofficial total of 2045 of the county's 2527 eligible voters went to the polls to give an 81 percent ballot here. In the two Heppner precincts the percentage was even higher with slight ly more than 90 percent of the voters casting their ballots. In the Hardman precinct the vote was even higher. o lone Elects Slate Of City Officials lone voters Tuesday reelected all but one of their present city officials on a special city ballot which was given voters along with their big general election ballot. Reelected mayor was Omar Reitmann, George Ely, recorder and Echo Palmatecr, treasurer. Also kept In office as councilmen were Roy Lindstrom and E. W. Bristow. The new council mem ber was Merle Baker. Tabulation of the vote was not immediately available. BOB THORNTON Who has ap parently won for the Democrats end himself the job of attorney general, oue of the Lew positions ' in the state relinquished by the Republicans. His race was very close, but he seemingly has wrested the seat from Repub lican, John B. McCourt Pattern of Yes, ,799; No, 954 World War veteran's state aid sinking fund repeal amendment Yes, 1297; No, 425 Art authorizing domiciliary state hospital for aged mentally ill Yes, 1303; No. 509 Amendment legal voters of taxing unit establish tax base Yes, 979; No, 596 Amendment to augment Oregon war veterans' fund Yes, 1351; No, 343 Amendment creating legislative assembly emergency committee Yes, 881; No 611 Amendment fixing elective terrris of state senators and representa tives Yes 1261; No, 319 ft- - , ' Lf'.v National Trend Tom and Steiwer Win Two State Representative Seats S t A- ' Vl t Pi t""' Aj Aa; CHARLES A. TOM Who outdist anced the other two candidates to win top position (of two) for state representative from the 22nd district ,Af A. t 1A Vnfw A JACK STEIWER Who nosed out Democrat Robert E. Smith to win the second open position as state representative. He will work in Salem with Tom. Fire Destroys Two Buildings Near lone . Fire, apparently starting from a defective oil stove, destroyed one house, a bunkhouse and dam aged a machine shed on the Jody Morrison ranch 12 miles west of lone. The blaze started about 7 p. m. Tuesday. Completely destroyed was the house occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Bill Baker and the bunkhouse in which Bill Logan lived. Logan last all his belongings, but Bakers succeeded in removing most of theirs without damage. A nearby machine shed was also reported damaged, but not severly. Neighbors assisted in saving adjoinnlg buildings. No estimate of the damage was available. Heppner Slaughter House Now Operating Harold Johnston, owner and operator of the newly completed Heppner slaughter house announ ced this week that he will open the establishment for business this weekend. He will specialize In custom killing and government graedd wholesale meats. The new business, Is In the for mer location of the Heppner Sale yard at the western end of town. The former building has been completely remodeled and John ston has built a home on .the same property. He comes here from Hermiston and has been In the wholesale meat business for 20 years. ! IV A 1 iVaV, Vote in County Amendatory act title subject amendment Yes, 795; No, 537 Act limiting state property tax Yes, 1010; No, 665 Motor carrier highway transpor tation tax act Yes, 1177; No, 680 School district reorganization act Yes, 671; No, 1022 Cigarette stamp tax revenue act Yes, 807; No, 1077 Establishing standard time In 1599; No, 333 Constitutional amendment pro hibiting lotteries, bookmaklng, parl-mutuel betting etc. Yes, 614; No, 1254 Constitutional amendment autho The two Republican candidates for state representative from the 22nd district. Charles A. Tom, Rufus, and J. P. (Jack) Steiwer, Fossil, won two vacant seats in a close race. Tom polled the heaviest vote to hold a substantial lead throughout the voting and Steiwer pulled ahead of the Democratic aspirant, Robert E. Smith, Condon to win his seat by a small margin. Tom and Steiwer both carried Morrow county by a comfortable majority. Smith carried his home county, but only nosed Tom out County tabulation gave; CHARLES A. TOM Morrow 1262 Gilliam 716 Wheeler 484 Sherman 685. Total 3147 J. P. STEIWER Morrow 813 Gilliam 57 Wheeler 682 Sherman 548 Total 2800 ROBERT E. SMITH Morrow 855 Gilliam 718 Wheeler 562 Sherman 492 Total 2627 Street Closure -OK'd by Council The Heppner council Monday passed approved an ordinance calling for the closure of D street between Elder and Court streets at such a time as a new alternate street is built north of the pre sent D street. The closure had been requested by the school board. The street vacation is necessary if the new Heppner elementary school, planned by the board, Is to be constructed. The state board of education had informed the Heppner board that the street would have to be moved before it would grant approval of the site. The school board presented the council with tentative plans for the location and grade of the new street which will be located approximately parallel with the present channel of Hlnton creek. The council received no bids on its call for the sale of bonds in the amount of $300,000 to finance construction of the sewer systerh and will issue a new call for tha sale of only $250,000 bonds. The new lower amount was made pos sible by the low bids received on the construction jobs. Building permits were issued to Joe Swendig, for a 36 by 93 foot building for the state highway department to cost $18,510; Mrs. Frank Adklns, garage, $1,000; D. A Wilson, remodeling, $1,500; L. H. Case, residence, $2,500. The council also served notice that it will require building per- ' mlt3 be obtained before construc tion is started. Members stated t hat It had been the practice of many persons to have a Job near ly completed before applying for a permit. Mayor J. O. Turner stated that he had received information from the two companies who will do the work on the sewer system and treatment plant that they plan to start construction Immediately, one of the firms next Monday, the other the following Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Barratt and children visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Ferguson, in Os wego over the weekend. Her sis ter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Hunter, of Seattle were there also. rizing alcoholic liquor sale by in dividual glass Yes, 967; No, 904 Constitutional amendment pro vlding equitable taxing method for use of highways Yes, 395; No, 1376 Milk production and marketing act bill Yes 699; No. 1103 Constitutional legislative senator and representative apportionment enforcement amendment Yes, 491; No, 1039 Morrow county roads levy Yes 1082; No, 682 Morrow county hospital addition 1137; No. 664 is J H,M 'r ," jrA . I
