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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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WHEN YOU GIVE HER
Wearable Lovlies
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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