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Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, November 13, 1952
Vol ume 69, Number 35
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WANDERING PORKY This porcupine apparently got tired of living
clone in the wide open spaces and wandered in to Heppner Mon
day night only to meet his Waterloo. The prickly animal was
found trying to get into a back door of Humphreys Drug company
on Willow street by Clifford Hermanns who killed him with a
couple cf well aimed blows with a club. (GT Photo)
Mustangs Bow to
Echo 12-0; Final
Game Here Sat.
Heppner high school's Mus
tangs lost to the Echo Cougars on
the home field Armistice day 12
to 0 in a very close, hard-fought
game.
The game was one of the clean
est of the season with only two
penalties called by officials dur
ing the entire contest. Each team
was . penalized five yards for
minor rules infractions.
Mustang mentor Steve Truko
silz gave special praise to Bill
Hughes, Kalph Marlatt and Wen
dell Connor for outstanding play
and also credited three Echo
players with excellent work. They
weie LeWard Collingsworth, Gary
Dorn and Bud Graham.
Following the game the Hepp
ner American Legion post num
ber 81) presented the Echo cap
tains Willi a trophy for victory in
the game. The trophy is pre
sented each year to the winner of
the Hcppner-Echo series played
on Armistice day. The engraved
tropliy will ieivtyt by Echo until
won by Heppner.
The first quarter of the game
Tuesday was very evenly played
with neither team threatening to
score. During the second period
most of the play took place in the
cemcr oi uie item unui near me day leeway is being allowed be
end, with 20 seconds remaining' ransp the nffi wn lato in not.
in the half, Echo scored on a fing the statements in the mail,
pass from Collingsworth to Dorn. Tnis was brought about due to
They failed to make the try for t wo additional taxes being In
point good and the half ended i eluded on the starempntQ ih
with the visitors on the long end
of a G to 0 score
The Cougars scored again just
after the opening of the final
quarter with Gary Dorn again
taking the ball over, this time
from 12 yards out. They failed
again to convert.
In the first down department,
Echo held the edge 11 to 8.
Echo won the championship of
the Cay'use league which gives
them the right to meet Wallowa
in the quarter finals for the state
"B" school
championship. This'
game will be played Saturday.
Next Saturday the Mustangs
play, their final game of the sea
son when they meet the lone
Cardinals on the Rodeo field. This
will be the Heppner homecoming
game.
Probable starting lineup for
this game will be:
Jim Green QB
Jack Sinriner FB
Wendell Connor RH
Lyle Jensen LH
Dick Kononen E.
Bill Hughes E
Ralph Marlatt T
Russ Taylor T
Roger Palmer G
Wesley Marlatt G
Larry Mollahan C
Lexington P-TA Meet
Set For Tonight
The Lexington P-TA will meet
tonight (Thursday) at the Lex
ington school auditorium instead
of the usual Tuesday meeting
which was postponed because of
the Armistice day holiday.
There will be a short program
centered around the observance
of National Education Week, Nov.
9 to 15. All parents are urged to
attend the meeting.
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Mrs. Ada Cannon left Tuesday
afternoon for lone where she will
assist with the care of Mrs. Lana
Padberg who was injured recently
in an automobile accident. Mrs.
Cannon expected to be away from!
home for some two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Stone of;
Haines were weekend guests at!
the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Osmin J
Ilager. The Stones formerly lived!
in Heppner when he was associ
ated with Eugene 'oble in the
saddle shop.
Only .003 Inch of
Rain Falls Here
Rain Monday night and Tues
day, though very light; did set
tle the dust in most of the county
and was the first recorded here
since the middle of October.
Len Gilliam, Heppner weather
observer reported only .003 of an
inch fell locally, but forest ser
vice reports Wendesday from
Kinzua told of .27 falling in that
section. Some snow fell in the
higher elevations in the moun
tains Tuesday night.
Evidence of the unusually dry
fall is shown in the local rainfall
record. Only .15 inch fell in Hepp
ner during October. The weather
man, however, predicted more
rain or snow for Eastern Oregon.
(Last night's rainfall added .21
to the above amount of moisture.)
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Taxpayers Given
Extra Day of Leeway
Frances Mitchell, deputy tax
collector announced this week
that the tax office in the court
house will remain open all day
Saturday to accommodate tax
payers.
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though the deadline for pay
ment of the first quarter property
and personal property tax is
November 15, the office will ac
cept payments made on Monday,
November 17 without loss of the
discount or penalty. The extra
levy for the lone rural fire dis
trict and the Spruce budworm
control levy.
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Local Girl To Sing
In Chorus On Mutual
Eleanor Rice, granddaughter of
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Rice, who is
attending Stephens College at
Columbia, Missouri Is a memebr
of the concert chorus that will
present a 30-minute program on
Sunday November 16, over the
Mutual network
This is the fourth consecutive
year that the chorus has been
heard over the network and the
program originates on the Step
hens campus.
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Farm Bureau Meeting
To Be Held In Baker
The twenty-first annual con-
vention of the Oregon Farm Bu-1 wnent. Heppner oiey juicer;
reau federation will be held Nov..Lorna Shannon, Boardman Foley
17-21 in Baker according to an- Food Mil1! Maxine Sicard, Board
nouncement of convention plans' man Foley Twin Sifters; Carol
by president Marshall Swearin-Hami,ton' Boardman Foley Sal
cen. The m-oeram will include ad Chopper; Sharon Fussell,
three days of general session'
meetings with one day, Tuesday
Nov. 18, devoted to the annual
committee and commodity meet
ings. Farmers from every corner of
the state are expected to attend
the convention. Those from Mor
row county who are planning to
attend are Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bar
ratt, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Baker,
Mr. and Mrs. Markham Baker,
Mr. and Mrs. Irven Rauch, Mr.
and Mrs. Gene Majeske, Mr. and
Mrs. (jene , Lutslorth, Mr. and
Mis. Orville Cutsforth" and Mr.
and Mrs. David Baker.
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C and H. Canning
Winners Announced
Winners in the C and H sugar
canning contest for the Morrow
County fair have been announced
tnis week.
They are Mrs. L. D. Neill for
pear preserves, Mrs. Kemp Dick
far canned pears arid Mrs. Marion
Finch for plum jelly
tacn winner was awarded a
100 lb. sack of C and H sugar by
the sugar company.
4-H Club Awards
Given Winners for
Outstanding Work
Morrow County 4-H club mem
bers and leaders completed their
club year last weekend with
Achievement parties held at
Boardman and Heppner. Total at
tendance of members, leaders,
parents and persons Interested in
4-H club work, was approximately
400. Both parties were a big
success from the beginning pot
luck supper through presentation
of awards and recreational pro
gram for the evening.
The Achievement parties, an
nual events designed to recognize
the accomplishments of the boys
and girls enrolled, as well as the
leaders, honored 201 members,
completing 290 projects enrolled
in this year. Forty-five leaders
were presented with leadership
certificates and special recogni
tion or completion of clubs.
During the program several
special awards or special recog
nition was given to club members
doing good work throughout the
year. These special awards,
donors, and winners were:
Agricultural Awards
Lederle Laboratories Dairy
Achievement Award Maxine Si
card, Boardman, Medal.
Safeway Stores Livestock
Breeding Project Award Duane
Baker, lone Scholarship to 4-H
Summer School.
Dansforth Foundation "I Dare
You" Certificate and Book Ron
ald Currin, Heppner.
Oregon Wool Growers Auxiliary
Sheep Award, $10 Bill Brannon,
lone.
W. E. Hughes Ewe Chain Mar
jorie Peck, Heppner.
The Country Gentlemen High
Individual Judge, P. I. Livestock
Judging Contest Camera Ron
ald Currin.
Rhina Kramer Trophy High
Place 4-H Livestock Judging team
at P. I. Ronald Currin, Eddie Bros
nan, Jack Monagle, all of Hepp
ner. P. I. Wool Show Janet Wight
man, Heppner 1st Half-blood
fleece,
P. I. Showmanship Contest
Deane Graves, Heppner 7th.
P. I. Prime Steer Deane Graves
65.87c Carcass yield.
P. I. Prime Steer Rieta Graves
06.0 Carcass yield.
State 4-H Achievement Trophy
Late Governor Earl Snell Ron
ald Baker, lone.
Ralston Purina Company Per
sonal Trophy Dickie Ekstrom,
lone and Patricia Peck, Heppner.
Grand Champion Showmanship
Trophy Morrow County Fair
Bill Brannon, lone.
High Individual Judge Mor
row County Fair Engraved Tro
phy Morrow County Grain Grow
ers, Inc. Ronald Currin, Heppner.
Home Economics Awards
Dansforth Foundation Winner-
Jeanne Califf, Irrigon.
Standards Brands, Incorporated,
Demonstration Awards Virginia
Anderson, Heppner, Individual-
Diane Grant, Darlene Connor,
Heppner Team.
Safeway Stores, Inc. lsl Team
Demonstration Diane Grant,
Darlene Connor.
General Foods Corporation
Special Jam and Jelly Contest
Patsy Wright, Heppner.
Foley Manufacturing Company
Awards: Janet Kendall, Lexington
Foley Twin Sifters; Mardine
Baker, lone Foley Mill; Barbara
Warren, Heppner Foley Vege
table Chopper; Virginia Andresen
"eppner roiey rork; Janet
Boardman Foley Fork; Janet
Losness, Irrigon Foley Juicer.
Sears Roebuck Foundation
Connie Baker, Boardman.
Beekeepers Association Contest
Sharon Fussell, Boardman.
Oregon Wool Growers Auxil
iary, Dollar Dinner Jeanne Cal
iff, Irrigon.
Style Revue
Ann Belle Coleman, lone.
Elise Baurenfiend, Morgan.
Marilyn Munkers, Lexington.
Janet Wright, Heppner.
Grace McCabe, lone.
Judy Thompson, Heppner.
Deloris Easter, Heppner.
P. I. Award Sally Palmer,
Heppner.
Leadership Pin Patricia Peck,
Heppner.
NATIONAL FLOWER WEEK
OBSERVED
In observance of National
Flower Week, last week, Mary,
Van's Flower shop placed bou
quets of fall flowers in three
places during the week. Those
places where bouquets were on
display were The First National
Bank of Heppner, Star Theater
and The Heppner Gazette Times.
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ACHIEVEMENT PARTY A few cf the more than 200 4-H club mem
bers and parents who attended the Achievement party held at the
Heppner fair pavilion Saturday evening. The party, and a similar
one held the night before at Boardman, gave recognition for the
work club members have done during the year. (GT Photo)
NEW DIRECTORS ELECTED AT ANNUAL
MEETING OF COLUMBIA BASIN COOP
The ninth annual meeting of come the shortage.
members of the Columbia Basin'
Electric Coop was held Saturday
November 8 at the Legion Me
morial hall in Condon. 135 mem
bers and guests were present.
Included in the business of the
session were reports given by
Kenneth J. Smouse, president of
the board of directors; O. E. Pet
erson, secretary-treasurer, and E.
A. Collison, manager. Three di
rectors were also elected at the
meeting. They were Jack Hynd Jr.,
Cecil; W. D. Hardie, Condon and
Virgil Woelpern, Blalock. Hynd
and Hardie were reelected for
three year terms and Woelpern
succeeded C. K. Barker, Condon,
who did not seek reelection. The
list of officers and directors in
clude: Kenneth Smouse, lone,
President; W. D. Hardie, Condon.
vice pres.; O. K. Peterson, lone,
sec.-treas.; Jack Hynd Jr. assist
ant secretary; and directors,
Henry Baker, lone, John Hanna
Sr., Heppner, Walter Jaeger, Con
don; Lee Pettyjohn, Arlington;
Virgil Woelpern, Blalock.
John Daivs, assistant adminis
trator for the Bonneville Power
authority was "Mho principal
speaker and he discussed the
acute power shortage, both pre
sent and future and stressed the
urgent need for development of
the Columbia and Snake river
hydro-electric projects to over
Only Paint Suffers
From Trash Can Blaze
The city's curbside trash cans
are meant for trash, but not burn
ing cigarettes or matches, mayor
J. O. Turner pointed out after a
Sunday evening fire call brought
firemen to the corner or Main and
Willow streets to put out a blaze
in one of the containers.
Though the blaze could not
spread, the paint on the can suf
fered from the heat. This is not
the first time that fires have been
started in the containers and the
public is asked to use care in
putting refuse into them.
RHEA CREEK H. E. C.
The Rhea Creek II. E. C. will
meet or a potluck dinner at noon
Thursday Nov. 20 at the grange
hall. The husbands are invited to
come also and help do some
repairing.
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Mrs. Ted Pierson and daughter,
Marjorie, departed Sunday for
Condon where they will make
their future home.
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Alphonso Boone, rrandson of the rreat Daniel, trekked west to Oregon In 1846, iettlln with his fam
ily on the banks of the Willamette across the river from where Wilsonville was to rrow. In 1817 the
eldest son, Jesse V. Boone, built himself a ferry boat to bridge the water gap for those rugged pioneer
wanting to make the then Ion journey over what became known as the Boone't Ferry Road between
Portland and Salem. Jesse was killed In 1871 and his younger brother, Alphonse D. took over the Job
and for 100 years the old ferry and Its successors have carried the public and Its vehicles, from ox-drawn
to diesel-driven. It will continue faithful to Its e?ntury-old task until Jan. 1, 1954, when It Is ex
pected that the new Boone four-lane bridge will take over the burden. Then this last of the Highway
Commission's "fleet", except the Astorla-Megler ferry, can take Its rest and become another memory
la Oregon's book of pioneers and their history, .... . .
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Other speakers included Clint
Warren, president of the Pump,
Pipe and Power company of Port
land who spoke on sprinkler ir
rigation and Gus Norwood, execu
tive secretary of the Northwest
public power association who dis
cussed the Hell's Canyon pro
ject and the necessity for the full
est development of this and other
projects in this area.
The all day meeting was
broken at noon with a luncheon
served by the Legion auxiliary.
The 1953 meeting will be held
in Heppner.
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New Grain Growers
Manager to be Named
Two new directors of the Mor
row county Grain Growers, Alec
Lindsay and Don Campbell were
elected at the annual meeting of
the company held Monday at
the Heppner fair pavilion. Also
reelected to another term as di
rector was Lloyd Howton.
Lindsay and Campbell re-
placed O. E. Baker and Terrel
Benge who has served for the past
term.
The directors announced "the
resignation on November 1 of Bill
Richards, manager of the firm
since the first of the year. No suc
cessor was named by the group
but the board said they expected
to select someone within a short
time.
A report of the year's operation
was given and no plans were
made for further expansion of
the operation. The Grain Grow
ers this fall completed construc
tion of two new elevators giving
them six storage units.
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Power Company Check
Adds To County Funds
A check for $16,387.51 In pay
ment of 1952 real and personal
property taxes on Pacific Power
and Light company in Morrow
county has turned over to the
county this week by J. R. Huffman
local manager for the utility.
This years Morrow county pay
ment was almost 11 per cent
larger than last year's, Huffman
said, and was part of more than
$1,186,000 paid by the company to
16 Oregon counties in advance of
the November 15 due date.
Huffman said that total direct
taxes carried by the Pacific sys
tern this year will exceed $5,000,
000, of which approximately $2,
738,000 represents federal taxes.
Last Veteran Fading
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Chamber To Meet At
Cutsforth Lodge
Next Monday Evening
In place of the regular noon
meeting, members of the Hepp-ner-Morrow
county chamber of
commerce will hold a special
meeting Monday, November 17 at
the Cutsforth lodge at Herren
creek meadow. Wives or hus
bands of members are invited to
attend.
The meeting will start with a
buffet dinner to be served at 7 p.
m. and will be followed by a
regular business meeting. The
program will be under the direc
tion of the agriculture committee
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Local Community
Chest Drive Lags
A tally of funds turned in to
Heppner Community Chest treas
urer La Verne Van Marter shows
the city drive is lagging badly
with only $1182.15 collected so far
by drive workers. The city quota
is $2,000.
Van Marter said there Is still
one downtown block that has not
been checked in and workers In
some of the residential areas still
have some contacts to make.
James J. Farley Jr., drive chair
man for the city had hoped to
complete the drive by this week
end and urged all workers to fin
ish the remaining contacts in
their areas as ralpdly as possible
in an attempt to meet the goal.
No reports have been received
from other sections of the county
as to progress there. Each area
has its local committee and Hepp
ner was the first to open its drive.
The county quota is $4,000
which is a 25 per cent increase
over last year.
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Final Tally Shows
County Vote 83.3
A final count of ballots in last
week's election by the county
clerk's office showed that 2092
; Morrow county residents made
the trip to the polls to express
their opinion on men and meas
ures. ' This was 83.3 percent of the
total registration.
The vote, the heaviest in years
was about the same percentage
all over the state.
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Women's Chorus
Elects New Officers
The Women's Chorus met Wed
nesday evening, November 5 at
the Christian Church.
Officers elected were Mrs. Wal
ter Barger, president; Mrs. W. J.
Warren, secretary-treasurer.
Work is to be started now on
Christmas music and the chorus
will meet for practice every Wed
nesday evening at 7:30 p. m. in
the school.
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Special Services
Planned By Church
Wednesday, November 19 the
young people of the Assembly of
God church will present an even
ing of music and singing under
the direction of Hubert Wilson
orchestra director.
November 20 will be Missionary
meetings. Services being held at
2:30 p. m. and at 7:00 p. m. Pic
tures will be shown of Chile and
the speaker will be Rev. E. R. Sch
neider of Valdivia, Chile, South
America
Away
Power Shortage
To Have Slight
Effect Locally
The continued lack of rain and
consequenclal shortage of power
in the Pacific northwest has made
necessary a brownout program
throughout the area.
A voluntary brownout, or re
duction in the unnecessary use of
power has been requested by the
Northwest power pool to start to
day, and It will be followed next
Monday, November 17 with a
required reduction by big power
users. The defense electric pro
duction administration has or
dered a 10 per cent cut by all
consumers using 8000 kilowatts or
more a week.
Locally, the only firm effected
by the order will be the Heppner
Lumber company, but Orville
Smith, company head said Wed
nesday that unless there is an
additional cut in the future it
would not effect the operation
here as the mill has a steam gen
erator of its own and is able to
pick up most of the reduction.
Smith said any additional cut,
however would cause them diffi
culty. The reduction will not ef
fect the Monument mill, as they
generate all their own power for
that operation.
E. H. Collison, manager of the
Columbia Basin Electric cooper
ative said Wednesday that the
reduction wlll not effect any of
their customers inasmuch as all
of them using that amount of
power are on the preferred list
and do not have to take the cut.
The big users served by the REA
lines are all In the Condon area.
Collison said, however that they
were asking all customers to con
serve power whenever possible.
J. R. Huffman, Heppner mana
ger for Pacific Power and Light
company said that his company
has been operating all its steam
generating plants at full capacity
for the past two months in an ef
fort to keep up with the power
demand.
The exceptionally dry fall has
dropped the flow in the Columbia
river to such a low point that the
generating plants on the stream
cannot operate up to capacity.
Only heavy rainfall which will
give added runoff will deviate
the shortage.
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New Water Main To
Give Better Pressure
Construction is under way this
week on the laying of a new
water main to serve the lower
end of Riverside street in Hepp-
ner.
The new four-inch main will
provide increased water pressure
to residents of the area and will
also serve the new city sewage
disposal plant. Two new fixe
hydrants are being Installed
along the pipeline giving more
adequate fire protection in that
section of town. The area has
been served by a two-inch line
reduced to an even smaller pipe
near its end.
Home Defense Drive
Under Way in State
Organizations throughout the
state are cooperating this month
in a "Pledge for Home Defense"
campaign In order to build a
strong reserve force for civil de
fense. The drive began Tuesday, Ar
mistice Day and will continue on
through Thanksgiving, Novem
ber 27.
"Purpose Is to get a reservoir of
potential volunteers," said Robert
Sandstrom of the state civil de
fense agency. "Members of par
ticipating groups civic, women,
veterans, farm will be askerl
to indicate their willingness to be
counted as potential volunteers,
to whom the local civil defense
organization may offer training
and service If the need arises."
The idea behind the campaign,
being supported by more than 100
national organizations, follows
Oregon's policy of developing a
hard core of trained workers, and
having a reserve of people regis
tered and ready to offer their ser
vices when needed.
Education is another purpose of
the drive, which will emphasize
self preservation facts for the In
dividual citizen, such as taking
first-aid or home-nursing courses,
setting aside an emergency food
supply, stayirig off the roaas
during an emergency, and other
measures which will enable dis
aster relief crews to function more
smoothly.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Robinson and
Mrs.Merle Kirk of Hermiston left
last week for a trip to California.
Mrs. Raymond Ferguson and
Mrs. Leonard Schwarz spent a
few days this week In Portland,