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About Heppner gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1925-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1953)
HBRAftY W OF o ORE Single Copies 10 cents Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, January 8, 1953 Volume 69, Number 43 27,000 loneer H. L. Duvalls Donors of New Heppner Residence Members of the county court and the Pioneer Memorial hos pital board Wednesday received the keys for a practically new home which was presented as a gift to the county, for the benefit of the hospital, by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Duvall, Heppner residents and Morrow county wheat ranch er, The presentation was made at the Duvall home during a lunch eon given by the donors for the members of the court and board. The building, a practically new brick residence valued at more than $27,000 and located on Gil more street adjacent to the court house park, . was given to the county for the express benefit of the hospital. It may be used by the hospital in nearly any man ner it chooses so long as the pro ceeds are used for equipment or furnishings for the present build ing ar any additional building that might be constructed In the future. Acceptance of the gift was acknowledged by county judge Garnet Barratt and P. W. Mahoney, chairman of the board of trustees of the hospital. The home, built by the Duvalls during the past few years, os en tirely complete even to landscap ing and has only recently been vacated by the donors upon com pletion of a new homo immedi ately adjacent to the one given to the hospital. Board members and the court expressed their appreciation to the Duvalls for the gift and stated that they had no definite plans for disposition of the building. According to the terms of the deed it may be rented or sold or used in any manner desided by the Gift Received by it i lemonai nospitai ., - iAS 1 t . --T7 f rt V 1 . GIFT HOUSE The deed for this modern Heppner home belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Duvall was this week given by the owners to the county court for the use of Pioneer Memorial Hospital. Disposition of the residence will be left up to the court and the hospital board who may either rent or sell it. Proceeds will be used for hospital equipment or furnishings. (GT Photo) Draft Takes 7 From Tri-County City Council Starts Year With One New Member One of the largest groups of inductees to be called into the service from this area in many months left Condon on January One new councilman, Jeff Car 6 to report for induction into thejter, and two who were reelected armv. There were seven 20 and for another term were sworn in at 21 year olds, one of them from the opening of the Heppner city Morrow county. Included in the group were John William Jepsen, 21 lone; Floyd Wendell Cook, 20, Condon; Lloyd Delano Mecham, 20 Mit chell; Charles Wesley Phegley Jr., 20 and Morgan Thomas Medlock, 30 both of Spray; Lesley Lee Con boy, 20 and William Fredrick Zas trow, 20 both of Olex. The board also reminded all council meeting Monday evening by city attorney, J. J. Nys. Mayor J. C. Turner also took the oath of office tor another term as head of the city government, The reelected councilmen were W. C Rosewall and Dr. L. D. Tib bies, who had been appointed during past year to fill the un expired term of John Saager who resigned upon leaving Hepp- board so long as the proceeds gOj register within 5 days after their for the benefit of the hospital. hsth birthday and listed the fob Such funds, cannot however, be lowing registrars in this area: C. used to defray operating expen- j. rj, jjauman, Heppner; S. C. Rus ses. ! sell, Boardman; Earl D. Goldan, At the la;, general t'kv:;oi,,irrjnr0i(; George E. Van Wlnkib, voters of the county authorized a 'Arlington and A. A, Williams, special five-mill one-year tax' Spray. levy for the purpose of construe-' personnei of the Tri-County boys that they are required to ner, Main business or the evening ting an additional bedroom wing on the present building to allevi ate continually crowded condi tions. Construction will start shortly after July 1 of this year. n NEW YEAR'S FIRE DAMAGES APARTMENT Heppner firemen were called at 9 p. m. New Year's day to con trol a fire in the Paul Doherty ap artment in the rear of the Hepp ner laundry building on Main street. Fire chief, C. A. Ruggles estimated the damage at $200. The blaze, apparently starting! from a cigarette spark, burned a davenport and rug. There was also some smoke and water dam age. o Mrs. Pearl Devine has sold her board number 31 are G. J. Schrei ner, Condon, chairman; Conley Lanham, Heppner; Jack F. Combes, Fossil; and Mrs. Flor ence L .Morgan, Condon clerk. than $200 the amount raised dur- apartment house on Cannon street, in the 1951 Christmas drive, Mrs. to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bryant.1 Bryant said. was the discussion of the audi tors report which had recently been received from Lee Kipling King, Portland CPA. The nvmrt showed the city to be in excellent financial condition with substan tial balances recorded in nearly all funds. The report contained no recommendations or criticisms of the city's operations. Mayor Turner appointed new committees for the year with most members being returned to previous posts. Carter was placed Ion the finance and the fire and water committees. J. J. INys was reappointed city attorney, a job he has held for many years, and Incomplete totals of funds viuiui uiumib ui-ui raised in Morrow county by the ut''" d " "'; annual Christmas Seal sale far '""'" ma... exceeded that of last year, drive as marshal. , chairman, Mrs. Howard Bryant The council was told that tests revealed this week. Returns up to' rccntly kucn at( th? ncw wel Wednesday show a total of $1,- show that the water is pure and 153 has been reported for the cIean and that no chlonnation 1952 campaign, with the Board-,W1 be necessary before it can be man area still to be heard from. Pu i"to he city mains Consider- i ihiri uii-vrl rnm nine: In ho nnno Tn ThiL,a"Tnt "is .by,Tre.lhe well and pipe line before it Christmas Seal Sale Exceeds 1951 Total Urgent Need For March of Dimes Support Related In urging all out support of this year's March of Dimes drive now in progress Mrs. Joseph Hughes, county drive chairman, pointed to the amount spent in the county last year for the care of polio patients. A total of $l,9l9.lJa was ex pended by the county organiza tion for the care and treatment of polio patients, which was nearly 50 percent more tnan the county's share of the proceeds from last year's drive, it was pointed out. The county unit re tains half of tne total amount raised, which last year amounted to $2,569.34, the other half going to the National Foundation tor Infantile Paralysis for research purposes and aid in areas where ix)lio epiuemics urain uie ie- sources of the local chapter. The local chapter had some money remaining from the prev ious year, which marie it possible for it to care for last year's pa tients without having to call for aid from the National Foundation. She strongly urged, however that full support be given this year's drive because of the need to build back the depieteu iunci. The drive is now in full swing and she particularly urged rural residents to turn their donations over to their local Grange, that each might get the proper credit for their work. In many cases donors mail their donations di rectly to the Heppner postoffice and the money is credited here. but each area should receive due credit for their work." The Granges have charge of the drive in the rural areas. o Spray Trucker Dies When Hit by Log School Expansion Plan to Be Told At Special P-TA Meeting The regular meeting of the Heppner P-TA scheduled for next Wednesday evening at 8 p. m. at the high school gym will be an open meeting for the general pub lic, it was announced early this Russell Clyde O'Brien, 52, of Sprav died at Pioneer Memorialits customers back on the line by hospital Wednesday afternoon feeding power into the area from following injuries received earlier DUfUr. in the afternoon when he wasj crews searched for trouble on crushed by a log while at worki(he line and located the parted Fancher Appointed To Vacancy on School Board Bradley D. Fancher, Heppner at torney, has been appointed by week. The purpose is to provide county scnooi suiK-nnienaeni interested persons with a corn Leslie Grant to fill the vacancy 1 pete picture of the proposed on the Heppner school board schK)l expansion program, created by the resignation of Glen j Members of the school board Parsons. Fancher took over the and the building advisory com position January 1. Imittee will be present to give Parsons, who tendered his res-'tne details of the plan and to ex ignation to the board in December plain need for the new building was elected to the position in'an(i the proposed remodeling of lor a tnree-year term. i-an-'exjstnK facilities All interested cher will serve out the remaining' persons are urged to attend, one and one-half years of the term. Parsons stated that his reason for resigning was that his jolt with the Heppner Lumber company at its new operations at Elgin was causing him to have to be away so much of the time that he was unable to attend the board meetings, which caused an injustice to the remaining mem bers. Other members of the board are L. E. Dick, chairman, and Mrs. Stephen Thompson. Leonard L. Pate is clerk. i n Power Line Failure Causes Saturday Night Outage Here A splicing sleeve that gave way on the 66,000-volt transmission line near Jordan substation caused an hour and a half of darkness in Heppner, Lexington, lone, Fossil, and Condon Satur day night and kept the Columbia Basin REA's customers without electric service for almost four hours, according to J, R. Huffman, local manager of the Pacific Power and Light Company. Huffman said that Pacific Power and Light was able to get near Fossil According to reports, O'Brien who owned and operated logging trucks hauling for Midstate Lum ber company was caught between a, log and his truck. He was brought here by ambulance. He is survived by his wife, Agatha and three children. Fune ral arrangements are pending. o REV. GILLIAM TO CONDUCT SERVICES HERE The Rev. Jackson Gilliam of St. John's Episcopal church of Hermiston will be in Heppner Sunday, January 11th and will conduct the services at All Saints Episcopal church. Rev. Elvon Tull of the local church will conduct the Hermiston service. Rev. Gil liam is expected to leave Hermis ton in February for a new posi tion in the middlewest. HEPPNER POST OFFICE SHOWS BIG GAIN IN RECEIPTS OVER 1951 can be used, however. It was also reported that con struction of the sewage disposal plant was about one-third com pleted and that the contractors, Atlas Construction company, ex pect to finish the plant by April. a New Officers Seated Mrs .Theta Stratton and child ren spent the New Year's week end in Pasco visiting relatives. J. H. "JACK" BEDFORD, who last week assumed his duties as new manager of the Heppner branch of the First National bank of Pcrtland. He was for merly assistant manager at the Pendleton branch- conductor late Saturday night Huffman said that Pacific Power and Light company crews from Pendleton repaired the conductor. He explained that an electrical outage for customers of the Col umbia Basin REA from 9:05 to 9:52 Sunday morning was caused while the repaired line was re connected to the 66,000-volt Her-miston-Heppner line. o BUILDING COMMITTEE MEETING CALLED A special meeting of all mem bers of the special Heppner school building advisory committee has been called for Monday at 8 p. m. at the high school, chairman Robert Penland announced Wed nesday. The group will meet with the school board to discuss final plans for the school expansion plan. n - Dr. E. K. Schaffitz and Frank W. Baker made a business trip to Pendleton Monday. UP AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT CAR SOON TO BE AT BOARDMAN "Receipts at the Heppner post .the last quarter of the year ' office durinc 1952 showed an in- amounted to $7,315.10, which was crease of more than 15 percent $i,uuu more man uunng uie same nL-, rL- (Z,nwna James Driscoll postmaster said period the previous year. He also Mr Inea S-reeK VJrange this week. The total figure for the said that an attempt will be . , - . , ; f inpinfiinc new varieties, certifica te to obtain city parcel post the new offlc(7rSj was enjoyed tion law changes, weed problems, year was $22,478.20, an increase of $3,601.04 over 1951's total of $18,877.40. The 1952 business was the greatest ever handled by the Heppner office, Driscoll stated, and though a part of the increase can be accounted for by the in crease in some classes of rates at the start of the year, the actual dollar volume gain consiflerably exceeds any previous gain. During the past several years, the local office has consistently shown a gain of from 3 to 5 percent over the previous year, he said. The 1952 net business increase will run closer to 10 percent. Driscoll said that the volume handled through the office during Seeds grasses, legumes, and grains will be the topic of talks by agricultural specialists and new motion pictures to be shown aboard Union Pacific Railroad's Agricultural Improvement car when it stops in Boardman Tues day, January 13 during its sixth annual tour of the Northwest. Under the direction of U. P. Agricultural Agent George L. Penrose, the programs will cover many phases of the seed business Two complete programs will be presented while the car is here, at 9:30 a. m. and 1:30 P. m. The morninc session will be of par ticular interest to high school and iunlor farmer groups the after noon session for adult farmers. A portable miehophone located on each aisle of seats will give all persons attending ample oppor tunity to question the speakers about their subjects or individual problems. Building Permits Soar For Year Indications that Heppner en joyed a good year, construction wise, during 1952 is shown in building permits totaling $134. lo'O Issued in the 12-month period. This amount is more than double the $(15,000 issued during 1951 . Of the total amount, $109,900 was for new construction while $24,500 went for alteration and addition?, to existing buildings. Largest individual permits for business construction went to the State of Oregon, for construction of the new highway shops in the, northern end of town, the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph com pany, for its jiew dial telephone office and to W. C. Collins for his new building on Main street. Among the larger permits for new residential construction were those granted to H. C. Duvall, C. Van Schoiack and E. C, Dough erty. In all 15 permils were is sued for new construction. Largest individual remodeling job is now being completed by the Heppner branch of the First National Bank of Portland. The permits did not include nearly $300,000 in construction and equipment of llie new sewer system and sewage disposal plant. Had this been added to the total Iho figure for the year would have reached nfarly one half million dollars. o Mrs. R. G Statement On Condition Made By Grain Growers A statement released Wednes day by Al Lamb, manager of the Morrow County Grain Growers re garding the findings of auditors now working on the books ot tne concern should clear up many misconceptions as to the financial condition of the cooperative. The firm recently lost its fede ral warehouse license after some irregularities had shown up in the handling of wheat receipts and the financial condition of the business was questioned, but Lamb stated that he has been assured that the license would be reinstated as soon as financial difficulties are cleared. He em phasized that the license had not been revoked, just suspended. The basis for the financial dif ficulty appeared to be that the two new grain storage elevators built last summer by the firm were constructed without all the necessary financing arrange ments being completed. The con sequent drain on reserves of the company to pay for the elevators left it without sufficient operating capital. Lamb's statement follows: "It would appear from current audit now in process that the as sets of Morrow County Grain Growers Co op are intact. The present difficulties have appar ently arisen by virtue of the con struction of two new elevators one at North Lexington and one at Ruggs which has cost in the neighborhood of $310,000.00. Had the original program for financing this new construction been followed, that is to say, member subscriptions and mort gage loan commitments been ob tained, the present so called pre dicament brought about by the absence of working capital would have not occurred. "In summary, it is my firm belief that as soon as we arrange the financing of the new eleva-' tors as originally planned our troubles will have come to an end. "I am pleased to announce that a number of the large terminal grain bouses are accepting re ceipts on open market purchases." Lamb also said that he and other officials are now persuing investigation into methods of fi nancing the elevators and hoped to be able to announce the com pletion of a program within a short time. o Power Failure Stops Heppner-lone Game The basketball game between lone and Heppner being played on the lone floor last Saturday night was called because of dark ness when the lights went off at 8 o'clock at the end of the third quarter of the second string game Officials, players and a large crowd waited for 45 minutes be fore giving up for the evening. The game has been rescheduled for Tuesday evening, January 20 at lone. Spectators who jammed the gym last Saturday are invited to attend this game free as it was deemed more feasable than to try to refund admissions in the dark. LEXINGTON GRANGE The Lexington Grange will meet Saturday January 10 starting with a potluek supper at 0:00 p. m. followed by regular grange at McMurtry was in 8:00 p. m. The program will be Boise the first of the week for a a two curtain playlet and in business trip. She returned on stallation of officers. All grange Thursday. members are invited. delivery service during the by members of Rhea :..4mn -..,.U 4 1.1,. n.vi 1 , LIlllMIKaa IUMI inn v--, aim li.i- . Pri)n lu, nt ui, rnrrM nlni7erl tint if it ran he ar- "'6""u' phasied that it it can . be ar moeting, The following offi- ranged it w.ll take a heavy load that time:! off the office clerks who have,, Anderson Master; Barton been .forced to spon a good share 0verseerer; Margaret Ca- of their time pa sing out the g1ew many packages through the post office windows. lard; Pearl Wright, Chaplain; El- Driscoll also sta ed that wh 'e, Treasurer; Muriel he (hr.stmas business was secretary; Leonard Rill, heavier than in previous years,' ' i, was spread oyer a longer period t 'Asst. Steward. easier and quicker. The Heppner postoffice is rated as a second class office, a volume of $40,000 is required for it to reach first class. Mr. and Mrs. Evan Rill were ini tiated in the first and second de gree. The grange meeting night was changed from the first Friday night of the month to the second Friday night with pot luck sup per at 6:30 as usual. Owing to the rise in state dues, the dues have been raised to $3. This 1952 RAINFALL OF 11.58 INCHES SHOWS GAIN OVER PREVIOUS YEAR Rainfall recorded by Leonard, that fell in the "wet" year of " ' inc. KL.a 11 inni.ncl Hnnor fared a little better by vote of the members. a fu finch more than fell on the than did the Gooseberry section Grange also received a pennant Lea during the previous year, .! where a total of 10.65 inches of tor ""Jg final tally showed this week. moisture was recorded by Leon-, the past 10 years. Only one other flHeS rainfall of the year1 ard Carlson. His 1931 figure was grange ir jthe state haj done a. came in June when 2.74 inches ,10.71. (welI 11 was announced, fell but December was a close! The month by month figures( A card party is planned for the second with 199 being recorded.! are January, .89; Feb., 1.14; Mar. members on Saturday evening, woi nrprinitation for 19511.71: April .68; May, 1.82; June,1 January 24th at the hall with Mrs. was 10 57 inches and both years 2.74; July, .04; Aug., .17; Sept, Mildred Wright, Roxie Lovgren, were far below the 17.36 inches'. 89; Oct., .15; Nov., .36; Dec. 1.99. and Muriel Palmer as hostesses. Creek and smut control Adding visual evidence to dis cussions presented by farm ex perts will be two new motion pic tures, "Seed Certification", pro duced by the Indiana Crop Im provement association and "Smut Control", a Union Pacific film. Colored slides also will be used to illustrate talks. To bring the program into criti cal focus on the problems of the area will be a portion of the session in which the local county agent will discuss weed problems and other topics of current inter est and importance. Others in the speaking staff are IT E. Finnell. extension certi fication specialist, Oregon State College, who will present a col ored slide illustrated talk on cer tification in Oregon, and Robert O. Fletcher, manager, Pacific Northwest Crop Improvement as sociation, Walla Walla, who will discuss smut control and an over all wheat improvement program. Fletcher also will talk about seed certification a subject which has become very familiar to him dur ing his association work. U. P. Agricultural Agent Pen rose will introduce the speakers and open the programs with re marks about the car and the topic. II '"1m'lf.i '-- Ktraloht from the field, collefle. and laboratories, George L. Penrose, agricultural agent, and his itaff aboard Union Pacific's Agricultural Improvement Car soon will bring the latest information on grassland agriculture, seed production and management to this area. Panel discussions by experts and new motion pictures produced In color with sound will be featured with emphasis placed on . the community's principal crops.
