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Page 2 Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, November 27, 1952 HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES MOHROW COUNTY'S KEWSPAIEH The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1833. The Heppner Times, established November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 1912. NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION ROBERT r-ENLAND Editor and Publisher GRETCHEN PENLAND Associate Publisher NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION y J L Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Tost 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. Our Thanksgiving Prayer Heppner has lost a boy. More than that, a family has lost a son and a brother. Early this week a brutally frank telegram told the family of Private first class Gerald A. Settles that he had lost his life in Korea. Private Settles is, as far as is known, the first local man to die in this conflict that is not a war, yet that Is no conso lation to those who awaited his return. His name is now on the roster with many others who have represented America and its principles in the battle on the little peninsula a battle in which the odds have not been even. He was will ingly serving his country, yet was his country serving him as well? History has shown he went into the fight with little chance to help win a decisive victory for the rights of man as we under stand and believe them, yet that was his only reason for being there. God knows our leaders did not ask for this fight, and their decision to enter it goes unques tioned, yet to win it a principle must be at stake and a goal for victory must be set. The principle is known and believed, only the goal is hazy. On this Thanksgiving a family will have no joy and little to be thankful for. In their thoughts they will ask "why?" There are men, who on this day are trying to answer this question. Not that others haven't tried, too, but the approach is new. Let us hope that in the many prayers this Thanksgiving day there will lie as many requests that these men be given the guidance to find the answer to the question. The answer will not bring back Private Jerry nor any of the others, but it will make their going a thing of purpose and of greatness, not just loss with little reason. Tile request will be in our Thanksgiving prayer and we hope in yours. .1,1.. ..I I I HI I HI l I. .' - - .'' 1 . J bower's selection of Governor Douglas McKay as the new secretary of the interior. It has been many years since Oregon, or the northwest has been so honored or considered. The choice was not made by mere chance, for it shows that this section of the nation, long for gotten until recent years, yet one of the most im portant from the point of development, has be come of age and is being recognized as important to the economy of America as a whole. McKay's appointment means that a man with a deep understanding of the problems and needs of this great area will head the department which has the most to do with the development of natural resources of this area the water power and rivers' the reclamation of arid lands, the development of forest lands and its uses, the location and develop ing of the mineral wealth. We don't look at it as any great gift under the spoils system of political repayment, because Ore gon's governor will step into the job as well pre pared for it as any man Ike could have chosen. He understands the problems he will soon meet face to face. He knows that the federal government must do much of the development, yet he under stands fully as well, the part private industry and business must play if the greatest benefits are to be obtained. We wish Governor Doug the best in his new job. We know he will handle the Nation's problems as fairly and well as he has handled Oregon's. An Open Invitation McKay Moves Up Oregonians in particular, and all residents of the northwest, can well be pleased with Eisen- Heppner merchants and the Gazette Times this week serve notice that the Christmas season has arrived and that their stores are loaded with the merchandise that every Morrow county resident will be looking for in the very near future. Through their advertisements in this issue and in the many pictures scattered throughout the paper they are showing all Christmas shoppers that whatever they may want, they can find it right here in a Heppner store. It's a cordial invi tation to do your Christmas shopping at home. EDUCATING PRISONERS Convicts in prison must be pre pared to return to society as most of them will come out to live in that society again, Virgil T. O' Ma I ley, warden at the Oregon State Penitentiary told a confer ence of teachers during a "work shop" session in Salem this week. O'Malley said aptitude tests and vocational ability tests are .given at the penitentiary. They help the prisoners to find a field in which to study. Then they are enrolled in appropriate courses to teach them a vocation. He accentuated that education is far more powerful as an aid to society than punishment. STATE BUDGET TO PRINTER The biennial state budget for 1953-5 1 has been scaled down to $210,000,000 and turned over to the state printer by Harry Dor man, director of tho department of finaiice. Publication schedule calls for delivery December 22. In addition to these figures the state board of higher education will ask the legisjaturc to sane tino a $9,000,000 building pro gram. The state board of control will present an institutional building program for the next two years totalling $0,772,000, A MILLION A MONTH Death benefit payments of life insurance to Oregon families to taled $1 1,-195,500 in the first ten months of this ye;. The number of policies becom ing claims in the first nine months of 1952 showed an in crease of over 4 per cent com pared with the same period in 1951. The tremenduous increase in life insurance ownership since World War II is reflected in cur rent payments. Life insurance ownership in Oregon has increas ed 80 per cent in the past seven years. BIG BUSINESS ON THE BLOCK ... Bids have been called for a $5,000,000 war-time plant in Sa lem. The plant was built in 1912 as a pilot plant in extraeation of alu mina from clay to stockpile the war effort. The present product is activated manganese dioxide for use in the manufacture of dry cell batteries. The monthly ca pacity of the plant is 100 tons of manganese and 400 tons of am monium sulphate. The property offered includes 100 acres of land. Bids will be opened in Portland December 22 by the government's General Ser vices administration. GILLIAM AND BISBEE are headquarters for gifts for all ages. An example of the many is this dandy bicycle being admired by Dee Bailey and Paul Stout. The store is loaded with other wheel goods and toys and has one of Heppner's largest stocks of well known small appliances and housewares items that make wonderful Christmas gifts. officials argued that the new law, relating to terms of office of legis lators, disqualified him. . . Perry Buren, attache of corporation commissioners office, told con Continued on Page 5 r:-ywi t; 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. Thurg. Sat. 9:00 A. M. to 2:00 P. M. Evenings By Special Appointment ANALYTICAL VISUAL Broken Lenses Duplicated EXAMINATION Glasses Fitted HEPPNER VARIETY lives up to its name this Christmas s3a?on by effering a great variety af Christmas gift ideas for every member of the family. Here Mrs. Letha Archer is showing a customer the workings of a toy trcctor the kind every boy hopes to find under his tree at Christmas. Behind them is a table full of colorful gift wrappings. WHO HAS A NAME? What are the recently sanction ed dispensories of whiskey-by-the drink going to be called? That may be up to the legisla ture which has the job of creat ing a law to guide the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. In se lecting a name to distinguish the new shops from the present tav erns the solons have a long list to choose from, including phases of tile mode and antiques. If that ancient scrivener Geof fery Chauces were a member of the Oregon Legislature he would call the shop a "wyn bibbery". Our pioneer grandfathers said "whiskey salotn." To the gold rush miners all such were just "bars." The ultra-prohis and ulcer-pro-his would have them known as "grog-shops", "barrooms" or "drinkeries" how quick that one would slip to "drunkeries." In Nevada they say "lounge," and we read of escapades where the o is silent. Oregon probably will follow California and call them 'cock tail bars", an Americanese, ori ginating on U. S. Atlantic liners, CAPITAL SHORTS At tnis time every two years conscientious legislators band to gether planning to shorten the lengthening legislative sessions they're at it again. . . The annual convention of the Oregon Republi can Club will be held in Portland Nov. 28-29, Dr. E. E. Boring, state president announced this week. . . Paul Patterson, Hillsboro, state senate president, is working again this week as acting governor of Oregon. It took rulings by Attor ney Gen. Geo. Neuner and David O'ilara, state elections director, to hold him on the job when other By Ed Dick & Peck Leathers C-Clamp Serves As Handy Paint Bucket Holder. A painter friend of ours told us about this time saving idea. With an ordinary C-clamp, you can hang a paint bucket on almost any. projec tion, or on the rung of the ladder you're using. ) I Li ' fhang ort painting ladder V tn, "" ' mi here hook would slip off If you have a barn, shingled roof, fence or other unpainted wood surfaces to stain... do the job efficiently with Standard Shingle Stain. It comes ready to use. One gallon will give two coats on 90 to 125 square feet. Apply with brush or sprayer. Standard Shingle Stains come in red, green and brown . . . give lasting protection. Call us about them now. Good prod ucts and fast, dependable serv ice are the mainstays of our local business. A Stoddard Oil Company f California Product Dlilributed by L. E. DICK Phone 622 Heppner PECK LEATHERS Phone 8-7125 IONE far IB&Bilil All During The Holidays .... and anytime, they make a room seem gracious and warm. Order your ar rangements early for the holidays to insure getting just what you want. "'"""w ; i A Large Selection of GknUtmai Gcwk TABLE CLOTHS Paper Oiu-s For Christmas NAPKINS For Holiday Entertainment We have a large selection cf these items, but they are always picked over quickly so to avoid disappointment shop early PLANTERS o PLANTS o CUT FLOWERS GIFTS OF ALL KINDS Mary Van's Flower Shop k v i LI It MS Vtl- AY iffl WHEN YOU GIVE HER Wearable Lovlies a nig en X SWEATERS Fidmed is just one of the smash Jantzen suc cess sweaters for Christmas giving. We have them in Cashmere or Khara fleece in a host of styles and in her favorite colors. 7.95 TO 19.95 Matching Spun Nylon Sox 1.10 PENDLETON JACKETS 17.95 TO 22.95 SKIRTS 14.95-15.95 NYLON Negligee & Matching Gown in Blue or Blush $25.00 SET A Norah'i NYLON GOWNS ...7.00-12.95 SLIPS 5.00-10.95 PANTIES 1.75-3.50 COSTUME JEWELRY HANDBAGS . HANDSOME LINEN HANKIES
