L I C R A R T U OF 0 E U G E ' :: E . ORE. jfeepptter toette ' Copies 10 cents Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, November 19, 1953 70th Year, Number 36 Continuing Development Stressed At RBA Co-op Meet More than 250 persons attend ed the 10th annual meting of the Columbia Basin Electric cooper ative last Saturday at the Hepp ner fair pavilion to hear Charles Baker, Walla Walla, president of the Inland Empire Waterways Assn., and Owen Hurd, manager of the Benton county, Wash., PUD tell of the need for continued de velopment of the area's public power resources and of the possi bility of atomic power in the future. Three new directors were elect ed to serve the coop, they were O. E. Peterson, lone; John Hanna, Heppner and Walter Jaeger, Con don. Baker gave an excellent talk on the development of the Columbia-Snake rivers, stressing navi gation of the Columbia river, improvement of flood control, additional areas of irrigable land and the forwarding of reclama tion projects in the west to take care of added population. He compared the present with 20 years ago and also told of the transporting of grain by water. Hell's Canyon Talked Baker stressed the importance of the high dam in Hell's canyon being under government control rather than allowing smaller dams privately owned and con trolled. He told of the vital im portance of having substantial upstream storage and claimed that the Columbia-Snake rivers can be made into the electric Everett, Lexington; three daugh center of the nation and possibly ters, Maude Lutkins, lone, Flora the world, and stressed the pos-Schunk, Heppner and Dolly All sibility of the construction of ad-.stott, lone. One daughter, Vir ditional aluminum plants as a ginia Ayers, preceeded her in result. Baker also noted that construction of a dam at Hell's canyon is at a natural damsite and no private homes or land would be flooded by backwater. Baker also pointed to. the fede ral dams already completed and to the great amount of good they have done, he also told of the growing need for additional power in the west. Benton county PUD manager Hurd spoke on atomic energy as well as power development in his county and stated that he felt he on duty at the court nouse in that thought should be given to, Heppner Tuesday, Nov. 24 from the future after fossil fuels are9:30 a. m. to 3:30 p. m. it was used up. Here, he said, "atomic' announced today by the secretary energy will fill' in the loss. He 'of state's office, stressed, however, that hydro-1 o electric development should be stressed as much as possible. Kenneth Smouse, cooperative FURTHER DECLINE LESS LIKELY, SAYS Chances of further decline in beef prices are less likely than they were a year ago although producers still face the risk th'at consumer income could level off or decline, says M. D. Thomas, Oregon State college extension economist. Beef consumption is closely related to the amount of spendable consumer income. Also in the picture is the pro bability that pork supplies will be larger and lower priced by this time next year, Thomas reports in the latest Agricultural Situa tion and Outlook. Copies of the outlook circular are available from the county extension agents or Oregon State college. The economist attributes most of the decline in cattle prices during the past year to sharp in creases in slaughterings. One third more beef and veal was slaughtered during the first eight months of 1953 than a year ear lier. It is not likely tnat cauie EVANGELIST-MUSICIAN Larry Baird. who will be the speaker at Union Thanksgiving services next Wednesday evening at the HeDDner Christian church. Baird is conducting nightly meetings at tbe ehurch starting the first of Power president, stressed the need for continued working together to obtain continued growth of the REA coops and told how the REA ines and resulting power have taken the drudgery out of farm work. He also said continued growth depends strongly on good management of a cooperative. Coop manager, Edgar Collison, spoke briefly stressing the need for young members to fight as hard to hold cooperative gains as the older members did to get them. Dinner was served at noon to the group by members of the Rhea Creek grange. Funeral Services Held Monday for Mary Etta Barlow, 85 Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Etta Barlow, 85, who passed away Nov. 12 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Cecil Ludkins, lone, were held Nov. 16 at the Heppner Christian church with Rev. Earl L. Soward officiating. Mrs. Barlow was born March 12 1868 at Humbolt Basin, Baker county, Oregon, the daughter of Henry' and Emma Zcta Smith. She was married to Daniel S. Bar low on Jan. 1. 1893 at Weston and lived most of her life in this area. She is survived by her hus- band, three sons, Frank of Mar- tinez, Calif., Alvin, lone and death. She also leaves one sister, Na omi Smith of Pendleton, 13 grandchildren, five great grand children and several nieces and nephews. Interment was In the Heppner .Masoif (.nmetefv with , Pbelns Funeral Home in charge of ar rangements. LICENSE EXAMINER HERE NOVEMBER 24 A drivers license examiner will Mr. and Mrs. Bill Kilkenny of; Pendleton were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Mahoney, IN BEEF PRICES AG BULLETIN and calf slaughter will increase in the year ahead. Cattle-feeding operations look better than at any time in the past three years, Thomas states, with feeder cattle prices the low est in eight years, cheaper and more abundant grain and hay, and an outlook for more stability in fat cattle prices. Thomas reminds sheep' raisers that lamb prices follow beef cat tle prices very closely from year to year in Oregon. Nationally, this year's lamb crop was 7 per cent larger than last year, but the increase is being exceeded by the gain of slaughter and another decline in sheep numbers is indi cated. The economist states that pros pects for' steady beef cattle prices strengthens the outlook for sheep, especially for farm flocks in west ern Oregon and in irrigated sec tions of eastern Oregon where crop aftermath and low-cost for age are available. next week. ; -.;.; fi !V- t MODERNIZED last week was the 51 year old Seth Thomas clock which has faithfully told the time from the tower of the Morrow county court house. New electric motors were installed last Fri day to Veplace the cables, weights and pendulum which has con trolled the mechanism since its installation in 1902. The change over was made because members of the county court leared a cable break or crystalized pin might drop more than three tons of weight which ran the old clock, from the tower into the basement of the building. Here A. J. Chaffee, courthouse janitor, is shown examining the new modernized works, still in the old frame how ever, and is probably thinking of the many trips he now . won't have to' make into the tower to wind up the weights. The drum, on which the old striking mechanism weight cable was wound is shown still in the front of the frame. The drum is retained, minus its cable, in the new setup. About a year ago, the clock was silent for nearly a month, when the weight-box holding nearly 2 tons of sand and gravel, collapsed, spilling its load. The clock continued to tell time, though it wouldn't strike. Now the only thing that can cause it to quit will be a power failure. (GT Photo) Cattle Sales Show Increase HERMISTON W. A. Heath topped the market at the Her miston Livestock Auction Friday with 4 boars weighing 805 pounds going for $19.5 cvvt., Delbert An son, manager of the sale, reports. Gerald Swaggart of Heppner top ped the sow market with three animals weighing 1015 pounds selling for $18.30. Volume of cattle consigned, rising steadily for the past month, jumped up sharply Friday. The 657 head consigned compared with 113, and 136 sheep, com paied with 92 the previous Friday. Prices were generally steady to sightly higher, quality consider ed. Calves were of generally plainer quality. Hogs remained steady to higher despite drops in markets elsewhere. Weaner and feeder pigs of good quality con tinue to he in strong demand for next Friday's sale, Anson said. Demand continued to be very broad and active. Feeders and packers were well represented from the Yakima. Willamette, Boise and Sacramento valleys, a Tacoma packer was among those returning to the sale. Prime and choice lambs and breeding ewes, which brought a good price of $13 per head Friday, will be in demand at the sheep sale Friday. Fat lambs were lacking Friday and sheep, while somewhat stronger in price, were slightly weaker in quality. Others topping the market were John and Janet Edmiston, Hermiston, 1 sleer, 1160 lbs., 18c per lb.; Earl Ayers, Milton-Free-water, 1 angus heifer, 790 lbs., $16.50 cvvt.; Ed Hoeft, Pilot Rock, 11 steer calves, 5465 lgs., $17.50 cwt; M. F. Acton, Hermiston, 1 holstein steer, 765 lbs., $12.50; John Edmiston, Hermiston, 3 lambs, 365 lbs., $16.30; Carsan Linder, Hermiston, 4 fat hogs, 815 lbs., $19.50; Glenn and L. S. Thorne, Holdman, were largest consigners with 71 cattle. Calves: Baby calves 3.00-14.00 hd; steer calves 16.50-17.50; hei fer calves 14.50-16.00; veal 16.00 18.00 cwt. Steers: Stocker steers 13.50 14.75; feeder steers 15.00-16.20; fat slaughter steers 17.10-18.00; fat heifers 15.35-16.50. Cows: Dairy cows 122.50-145.00 hd.; dairy heifers 37.50-52.50 hd.; stock cows, 1 carload, 137.50 hd. Slaughter cows: Commercial 10.75-12.20; utility 9.50-10.75; canner-cutter 7.50-8.50, a few heavy Holstein cows to 10.00 cwt.; shells 4.50-7.00. Bulls: 10.50-12.20. Hogs: Weaner pigs 12.50-16.50 hd.; feeder pigs 21.50-23.25 cwt.; fat hogs 22.80 cwt.; sows 17.50 ; 18.30; boars 19.5() cwt. Sheep: Feeder lambs 13.50-15.-25; fat lambs 15.50-16.30; ewes 13.00 hd.; bucks 10.50 hd. o AT COUNTY MEETING County judge Garnet Barratt j and commissioners Ralph Thomp son, Heppner and Russell Miller of Boardman, left Wednesday for Portland to attend a three-day meeting of the . Association of Oregon counties. o Mr, and Mrs. Clarence Urey of Eugene are visiting at the home of their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Peck of j Lexington. Checks and Cash Bury Tax Office; 85 of Total Paid Taxpayers gave deputies in the sheriff's office a real workout during the last few days before the deadline last Monday and sheriff C. J. D. Bauman said Wed nesday that a rough estimate of the amount received prior to No vember 16 was about 85 percent of the total tax due. Office employees were hard at work processing the basketful of mail received just ahead of the deadline, and though they had accounted for well over $500,000 in cash and checks they expected to be another week opening all the tetters and crediting the payments. o UP Train Schedules Recently Changed Beginning Nov. 15 several changes of train times at Arling ton became effective it was an nounced by the Union Pacific. The east bound "Portland Rose" leaves Arlington 10 minutes ear lier, at 12:35 a. m. instead of 12:45 a. m.;the east bound "Spo kane" leaves at 12:57 a. m.. in stead of 1:12 a. m.; and the west bound "Spokane" leaves at 2:40 a. m. instead of 2:44 a. m. "The Spokane" will arrive in Spokane a half hour earlier at 6:30 a. m. instead of 7:00 a. m. and "The Spokane" westbound will arrive in Portland 20 minutes earlier at 6:lo a. m. instead of 6:30 a. m. The westbound "Port land Rose" will arrive in Port land at 5:30 a. m., a half-hour earlier than formerly. o Paper To Be Out Next Wednesday, Early Copy Asked The publishers of the Ga zette Times ask that all cor respondents and advertisers get their news and advertis ing copy in to the paper at least one day early next week as the paper will be published on Wednesday rather than Thursday due to the Thanksgiving holiday. The paper will carry the advertising messages o i many local stores announc ing the opening of the Christ mas shopping season. lone Livestock Judge Wins Another Award The Washington State College livestock judging team, of which Ronald Baker, lone is a member, continued its winning ways last week when the members took third place in team competition at the Ogden, Utah livestock show last Saturday. Baker did even better than the team, taking first place in the individual judg ing contest. The team was in competition with five others at the Ogden show. This is the fourth show in which the team has been entered, in two they walked off wiih top honors and in the others they took second place. DANCE IS PLANNED The Heppner square dance club will have a dance next Saturday night at the American Legion hall, it was announced Wednes day. It Is to start at 8 p. m. New VFW Post at Lexington Is Organized Tuesday Al an interesting and impres she ceremony Tuesday night in the Rebekah hall at Lexington. the Edwards-Way Post No. 6098 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars held their first initiation and in stallation with a degree team from the Pendleton Post putting on the work. It was the first meeting of the recently organized post. The meeting was opened by Commander Robertson of Echo, who iater turned the chair over to Tom Campboll, Pendleton, who was in charge of the initiatory team. Those taking the initiatory work and becoming charter mem bers of the new post were E. B. Way, George la in, Leonard Mun kers. George Steagall, Charlie Padberg, Bill Nickols, Marvin I Way, Floyd Breeding, Gene Ma jjeske, Roy Martin, Lyle Allen, Al VinkIeman, A. M. Edwards and i Carl Marquardt. j Commander Shuni of Portland was the installing officer with the following members being named officers: E. B. Way, commander; Roy Martin, viee-comm.;Leonard Munkcrs, Jr. vicc-comm.; Carl Marquardt, quartermaster; Bill Nickols, post advocate; George Irvin, chaplain; George Steagall, sergeant. Trustees included Charlie Padberg, 1 year; Al Winkleman, 2 years and Marvin Way, 3 years. After the meeting pictures were taken of the new members of the post and the parents of the boys for whom the post was named, Mr. and Mrs. Lon Edwards, whose son Clyde lost his life at Okinawa, and Dan Way whose son Stanley was killed in the European theater. Auxiliary Planned. The new post voted to sponsor an auxiliary and Mrs. Cecele Hafer of Portland state auxiliary president gave a short talk on the purposes 'of the organization. Several members of her staff were present including, Mrs. Lil lith Guderian, president of the Echo auxiliary; Mrs. Rex Bohm and Mrs. Roberts-on, Echo; Mrs. Lavelle Haest, president of the Pilot Rock auxiliary; Bonita Campbell and Mrs. John Shum, Pendleton and Mrs. Beulah Har over, president of the Pendleton auxiliary. District and state officers pre sent for the meeting were Tom Campbell, state district com mander, Pendleton; John II. Shum, Portland, state adjutant quartermaster; Stanley Robert son, district commander, Echo; Rex Bohm, Echo, district adjutant quartermaster; Mickey Schmidt, Echo, disrict quartermaster; and Gene Harover, Pendleton com mander. Other out-of-town guests in cluded Mr. and Mrs. Myles Mar tin, Heppner, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Breeding, Stanfield and Al Swales, mayor of Echo. Following the meeting a movie of the VFW orphanage was shown, depicting the work car ried on there. The next meeting of the new post will be held the first Tuesday in December. 12 Heppner Students Make Honor Roll Twelve Heppner high school students won positions on the scholastic honor roll for the first term, just ended, it was revealed this week by principal E. J. Dob bie. Four of the group received straight "1" grades, they were Nancy Anderson, Lynda Borman, Darlene Connor and Sally Pal mer. Others getting a "2" aver age or better were Beverly Baker, Deloris Easter, Shirley Peck, Judy Thompson, Lyle Jensen, Dick Kononen, Adelia Anderson and June Privett. Union Thanksgiving Church Services Set The Heppner Ministerial Asso ciation announces that local churches will conduct union Thanksgiving sevices Wednes day evening, Nov. 25 at Ihe Christian church at 7:30. The guest speaker at these services will be evangelist Larry Baird who is an accomplished violinist as well as a minister of the gospel. Mr. Baird will be holding nightly services at the Christian church until Dec. 13. Excellent special music is planned for the Thanksgiving services, it was said. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Rose wall spent Armistice Day In Portland. 5 CONSERVATION MAN Kenneth ceiving an engraved desk set from Orville Cutsforth as an award from the Heppner Soil Conservation district. Mrs. Peck is watch ing the presentation which was made at a special chamber of commerce dinner last Monday night at the Cutsforth cabin at Herren creek meadow. More than 40 members and guests dined on roast elk and turkey at the event, which is an annual affair of the chamber. (GT Photo) FFA Boys To Help Santa Again With Toy Repair Project The Heppner F. F. A. boys will acain co led and repair toys to Im? distributed to needy Morrow county families at Christmas ime, James Allen, chapter in structor announced this week. The chapter members started he nroiect last year and supplied many toys for local needs, send- ng the remainder to the W. C. T. J children's farm home near Corvallis. The bovs will collect anv toys residents have to donate, or they may be left at the school Ag. building. They would like to ave as many as possible early enough that necessary repair work can he done on them, Allen said. Two Heppner Men Enter Armed Forces Two Heppner young men, Charles Alvin Bloodsworth, 21, and Lynn W. Rill. 21, left today for Portland for induction into the armed services, the Tri county selective service board announced Wednesday. The two will enter the service in Portland and will be immedi ately sent to Fort Ord, Calif., for hasic training. The two consti tute the entire November draft call for the district. Junior Class Play Set For This Week "Grandma's Best Years," a comedy play put on by the jun ior class of the Heppner high school will be presented to the public Friday and Saturday nights, Nov. 20 and 21. It will be preceeded by a dress rehearsal for the benefit of grade school students on Thursday afternoon. The play has a cast of 16 class tion of Stanley H. Holm, school instructor. high First Snow Whitens Area on Tuesday Morrow county, at least in the lower elevations, received its first snow of the year Monday night and Tuesday, and though the fall whitened the ground .only added .18 inches of moisture, Leonard Gilliam, Heppner weather ob-. server noted. No cold weather has hit the county yet, though there have, been a few recent nights where the mercury dropped a few de-' grees lelow the freezing point. INTEREST IN FARM BUREAU HIGH; NEW OFFICERS, COMMITTEEMEN NAMED As a result of the many farm and livestock problems plaguing most farmers, much interest is being shown in the Morrow County Farm Bureau, new offi cers reported recently. At the first meeting of the new year which was held Oct. 27 at the lone Grange hall about 50 members were present with the new officers in charge. They are: New't O'Harra, Lex ington, president; Irvin Rauch, Lexington, first vice-president; Gene Cutsforth, Lexington, sec ond vice-president; Mrs. Mark- ham Baker, lone, sec-treasurer; and O. W. Cutsforth, Lexington, voting delegate. Committee chairmen who are serving during the coming year are Mrs. L. L. Howton, lone, Farm Bureu Women; W. W. Weather ford, Heppner, livestock; Kenneth Smouse, lone, resolutions; Ralph Crum, lone, field and crops; Kenneth Smouse, power; Charles Doherty, lone, health; O. W. Cuts forth, Ion, taxation; Bill Barratt, r I - vt ; Peck of Lexington, is shown re Start of Heppner Chest Campaign Postponed a Week The date for the start of the Heppner Community Chest drive has been changed to Monday, Nov. 30, it was announced Wed nesday by George Warner, local drive chairman. It had been originally planned to open the drive next Monday, but the post ponement was made because of the Thanksgiving holiday which would break into the week. Warner emphasized that the change of date applied only to the Heppner drive and did not effect the starting dates previous ly planned iti other communities of the county. Each area has its own chairmen and will conduct its drive according to plans made locally. Warner said Wednesday that most of Ihe Heppner workers have accepted jobs to aid in the soli citation, but that there are a few vacancies which he is now at tempting to fill. The plans call for a kiekoff breakfast the morn ing of Nov, 30 and the committee intends to complete the cam paign by the end of that week. As announced previously, the Chest quota for the county has been reduced considerably from last year, the directors feeling that there were amiHe funds car ried over from the past to care for the county's needs for next year, so that all that will be re quired will be $1006, or the amount necessary to meet the quotas of the state Chest or the United Fund organizations. A check of last year's data com piled by Chest treasurer, Robert Ferrel I, 'showed a total of $2,790. .64 was raised in the county and of this amount only $2,029.02 was disbursed. The balance, along with a small carryover from the previous year, gives the local fund a reserve of more than $1,000 which the directors felt was ample to care for next year's needs. Acomplele list of Heppner workers will be made available next week, it was said. THANKSGIVING SERVICE AT EPISCOPAL CHURCH Thanksgiving celebration of the Holy Communioon will be held at All Saints Episcopal church at 10:00 a. m. Thanksgiv ing Day. Owing to a clergy conference in Bend the Wednesday morning service will be omittted on No vember 25. Heppnr, land and water; Frank Anderson, Heppner,' membership; and Mrs. Kenneth Peck, publicity. At the afternoon meeting ten tative resolutions to be voted on at the state convention now being held in Salem were discussed at length. A potluck supper was at 6:30 which was followed by a program presented by the lone band. Livestock and land and water reports were presented by the chairmen of those commit tees and O'Harra announced the appointment of O. W. Cutsforth to represent the Morrow county Bu reau at the Pendleton agriculture hearing. To conclude the meet ing, Mrs Markham Baker showed movies of her recent trip to To ronto, Canada as a representative of the F, B. W. W. The next meeting of the Bureau ii 't I I n mA "rVTnn? n r fttmn f n (T Nov. 23 at the Lexington I. O. O. F. hall. A short program is to preeeed the business meeting. Mrs. Roy Martin will be refresh ment chairman for the evening. 1