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Page 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, November 20, 1952 HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES ' MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times, established November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912. "fr" NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION ROBERT PENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter. Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $3.00 Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 cents. Save Just a Little Power, It Will Help A story on the front page of last week's paper concerning the current Northwest power shortage which stated that probably the effect on this area would be slight, perhaps treated the problem a little too lightly though in the light of the facts as they were then available, it was technically cor rect. The situation could very well become much more acute than most persons realize. The mandatory 10 per cent reduction by big power users which was ordered by the. defense electric power administration to start last Monday, will have, as was stated last week, little effect here for the Heppner Lumber company is the only local industry using enough power to be effected by the reduction. It has sufficient generating capacity of its own to take up the slack. Such has not been the case with numerous other industries in Oregon and Washington. Several of them have already been forced to lay off workers in order to meet the cut. If another reduction should be call ed for in the near future, not only would it force the further cut back of operations of the indus tries already hurt, but it could effect our own local operation too. Another 10 per cent power cut could mean some of our own workers would be out of a Job along with many others in the states in the northwest power pool. The whole difficulty stems from the lack of water in the area's greatest source of hydro energy, the Columbia river, which is at its lowest point in many years. Only rain, and lots of it, can bring an end to the shortage and that rain must be warm. If the moisture falls in the form of snow, it won't acid muoh to the runoff now and the north west could very possibly be caught In the middle of the worst power shortage in its history. Lacking rain, about which we can do very little except to hoe, "rainmakers' notwithstanding, what can we as individuals do to help case the country over the crisis? There is a big part that every householder and every business can take one of care In the use of lights and power. It's as simple as that! If you can get by with one light instead of two, It will help. If your neighbor will do the same, it will help twice as much. The power saved by turning out one light bulb is very little, but when it Is multiplied by a million homes, it's a lot and it might be enough that some more workers won't have to go idle because there isn't enough juice to run their machines. See w hat we mean when we say that maybe we treated the matter too lightly last week? The thought occurred to us too, that in the face of yearly power shortages, we in the northwest, the greatest of ail potential power generating sec tions of the nation continue to argue for months on end about who and how and where our much needed additional dams shall be built. In fact there has been considerable discussion on whether some of them should be built at all. Maybe if the power shortage hurts us enough we will learn that we can do better if we pull to gether for the fullest development of our greatest natural resource. Possibly a few fish will have to suffer, but without power to run our industries and provide our payrolls, most of us wouldn't be in any position to do much fishing anyway. lone's Day Jubilation was great in lone last Saturday, and under the circumstances it should have been. lone beat Heppner at football. To make such an issue out of that might seem a little unnecessary until a person stops to think that it has been nearly 20 yea"rs since such an event oceured. To make the victory even sweeter, this is the first year in more than ten, we are told, that the Cardinals have competed in 11 man foot ball, and then to wind up a successful season by knocking over an arch football enemy and next door neighbor is ample cause for joy. If we lived In lone, we'd have added a few whoops of our own to the commotion. Ione's 20-man squad deserves a lot of credit for turning in as fine a record as they have, four wins against three losses for the season, but we 11 bet they wouldn't have been any happier last weekend if they had lost all their other games as long as they won this one. The Mustangs shouldn't feel too badly over their loss though, for to be beaten by a better team when you're doing your best is no disgrace, and no one can say that the Heppner boys didn't try. Maybe they have played better games, but mis takes and breaks are part of' any football game. They can, and do, work both ways. Heppner has won by them, as well as lost. Regardless of what might be said, you can't de tract from Ione's victory they earned it. It was their day. rom Th County Agent's Office By N. C. Anderson The drive to clean up Bangs disease in Morrow County is on. Wjth Dr. Floyd Frank, Bureau of Animal Industry veterinarian, now located here, ranchers find that it takes little effort to make appointments for having cows tested; heifer replacements calf hood vaccinated. Dr. Frank has reinforcements available in the form of additional veterinarians in surrounding counties if there should be more cattle to be tested than he can handle. It is reported that another veterinarian will bo located here to assist in getting the program finished that was started four years ago. This will make Morrow County the first in Eastern Oregon to have the re cord of cleaning out Brucellosis. To prove that Morrow county is HEPPNER ' Grade School News The "Ponies" have been work ing out regularly for two weeks under the direction of Coach Jim Peterson in preparation for a 12 game basketball schedule. Ap proximately twenty-five boys have been turning out with the first cuts in the squad due soon. The grade school lettermen's club held their first "starvation" rock dance recently. A good turn out helped the clubs' plan to raise money at such an affair for the purchase of athletic equip- ent and supplies. Individual pictures of all grade school children were taken by a representative of the Oregon School Picture Service on Novem ber 12. Group pictures for the grade school Annual are sche duled for November 24th. Three new pupils entered the Heppner grade school this week. They are Carolyn Downing, 2nd grade from Pilot Rock; Jerry Lee Kelly, 1st grade, from Pendleton; and Sharon Case, 6th grade, from Condon, Oregon. Combination 1st and 2nd Grade There were two birthdays in other events are being scheduled for the silver anniversary annual meeting of the Oregon Wheat Growers League. It is being held at the Multnomah Hotel, Portland, on December 4, 5 and 6. If recommendations for con sideration at the annual meeting from all counties are as numer ous and varied as those from Morrow County, some active dis cussions should be found in all committee meetings. All committee chairmen and secretaries will meet at Arlington on November 25 to coordinate county recommendations and pre liminarily arrange committee dis cussion for the annual meeting. fast putting the compulsory test program into effect 1401 cattle were tested for Bangs and 108 for T. B. by Dr. Frank during the month of October. An indication of the cleanliness of our herds, following the concentrated test, is shown only by 17 reactors of this great number. Many hundred head have been tested in Novem ber with many of the range herds now being tested. If you have not yet had your cattle tested or heifers calf hood vaccinated this year, you can reach Dr. Frank by calling him at his residence in Lexington. Many interesting speakers and LET'S EAT Thanksgiving Dinner at EASTER Special Thanksgiving Dinner Relish Dish Orange, Grapefruit, Tomato Juice or Shrimp Cocktail Cream of Chicken Soup Supreme Apple and Celery Salad Roast Young Oregon Tom Turkey, Oyster Dressing Cranberry Sauce - Giblet Gravy Baked Premium Ham, Glazed Pineapple Top Sirloin Steak, Bordelaise Sauce Buttered Fresh Peas Special Baked Potato Coffee - Tea - Milk Hot Rolls Pumpkin Pie - Hot Mince Pie - Ice Cream DINNERS SERVED 12:00 TO 9:00 M. C. STONEHOCKER, CHEF Attending the annual meetings of the Oregon Fairs Association and Oregon Wool Growers Associ ation in Portland last week, the agent found that problems are many on putting on fairs and raising sheep in many other coun ties beside Morrow. Serving as secretary of the sheep diseases committee, much discussion was held and concern shown of the new sheep disease, Scrapie, just recently introduced to Oregon. The disease, a nervous disorder, has an incubating per iod up to three years which makes it Impossible to eradicate from a flock. The disease was introduced from California in a purchase of Suffolk rams. These were dis covered and returned to Califor nia but not before two bands of Oregon sheep were exposed. These sheep are under quarantine in ftj? Southern Oregon. f a ivium uuiiLciii was miuwii uy tair omcials during their asso ciation meetings on holding pari mutuel betting funds for fair pur poses. Steps were taken to keep these funds from going into the state general fund, leaving the counties to provide means of fi- nancing their own fair. R. L. Clark vice-president of the Pacific In ternational, pointed out that Fairs are necessary if we-are to im prove agriculture in any country. The competition for something better than your neighbor has de veloped agriculture from the time of King Arthur, 800 years ago, when the first fair and auction sale was held by means of taxes and appropriations for this purpose. the first and second grade room last Wednesday Dick Springer was seven and Chris Burkenbine was eight years old. Chris had a birthday party at school. . His mother, Mrs. Loyd Burken bine did not wish to break into the school schedule so made ar rangements to bring refreshments to be served after 2:30 Friday, a period usually devoted to the en joyment of stories or music. Chris acted as host and was as sisted in the serving by six of his friends chosen at random from the group. The children enjoyed the party and gave Mrs. Burken bine a hearty vote of thanks be fore they went home. NEWS OF THE lone Schools The high school closed its first successful eleven-man football season with a victory over Hepp ner. lone scored four victories and suffered three defeats in a seven game schedule. Team mem bers incurred ten injuries in games and practice, none of these were really serious and all were covered by OSAA Insurance. With the advent of cold weather this week the indoor play sche dule has begun with the resulting noise and chaos of having only the one gym for elementary and high school play. This is the last winter of such difficulty because our new building is already 12 complete. The Senior class held a box social at the gym on Friday night. A small crowd attended and all had an enjoyable time. The Sen iors added the amount raised to their funds. Mr. Roger Allen was engaged permanent custodian of the school for the year at the regular Board Meeting on Thursday even ing. Ray Barnett has been doing the work temporarily. Trie Board also set the dates for Christmas vacation from De cember 24 to January 4. This is one day more than proposed on the county calendar. lone schools will make up that day by adding an extra day at the end of school in May. Other items considered on the meeting agenda included inside opening latches for the balcony doors, new surface for the steps and halls of the main build ing, and replacement of decayed firehoses. These were all matters (Continued an Page Seven) Lexington Ladies Aid Fancy Work Sale Lexington Community Church WED., DEC. 3 - 2 TO 4 P. M. DR. EDWARD K. SCHAFFITZ OPTOMETRIST Heppner Clinic Bldg., 103 Gale Street TELEPHONE 3373 Heppner, Oregon OFFICE HOURS: Mon.Tues. Wed. Fri. 9:00 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. Thurs. Sat.-9:00 A. M. to 2:00 P. M. Evenings By Special Appointment ANALYTICAL VISUAL Broken Lenses Duplicated EXAMINATION Glasses Fitted Advert itemcnt From where I sit . ly Joe Marsh Going . . . Going . . . 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