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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, December 10, 1953
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HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES THIRTY YEARS AGO
MORHOW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 1883. The Heppner Times, established
November 18, 1897 Consolidated February 15, 1912.
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PUBLISHERS
ASSOCIATION
ROBERT f ENLAND
Editor and Publisher
GRETCHEN PENLAND
Associate Publisher
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
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Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Post Office at Heppner, Oregon, 3S Second Class Matter
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SPOOKS
Every so often those little pests which always
hang around in a newspaper plant or print shop
decide to gang up on the crew and mess something
up just to make life miserable for the editor.
They're well known in other businesses too, and
1 hey always go by the same name Gremlins.
They're always around pulling dirty little
tricks on us like spelling names wrong, changing
the prices in ads or pulling out important classi
fied ads when the printer's back is turned. We
try to keep an eye out for them, but last week we
must have turned our back for rjuite a while from
the way they messed up a couple of our stories.
One or two of them must be Republicans, or at
least rabid private power advocates, because they
pulled Ihe names of Ed Collison and his crew of
i f dent
of that club this vear is
Buyrl Cooley, vice president,
: Lvnn Hnhhs.
From Files of the Gazette Time Hobbs, news reporter, John Wil
December 13, 1923 son, an dsong leader, Ernest Fil-
Attorney Sam E. Van Vactorley. Other members in this club
came up from The Dalles on Sun-'are Nelson Cruthers and Monty
day to be present at the opening Stephens.
session of circuit court, and to ap-j This brings to 75 the enroll
pear in a number of cases in rnent of agricultural clubs for
which he is interested as counsel. 1954. Included in this is the But
tercreek Junction, the South Hepp-
David Hynd returned the last of npr- Sandhollow-Buttercreek, lone
week, from a visit of several days Livestock, Irrigon Livestock, and
in Portland. , Irrigon Electric Clubs. Boys and
'girls between the ages of 9 and
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Turner of 21 who are interested in joining
Swaggart Buttes, spent Friday one of these clubs or who want a
and Saturday in Heppner. J flub organized in their commun-
ity should contact the county
Ford Sedan F. O. B. Detroit, agent.
$685 fully equipped.
At the Star Theater Thursday
John Barrymore in "Sherlock
Holmes" and on Saturday, Rich
ard Barthelmess and Dorothy
Oish in "Fury".
up in Heppner. They knew perfectly good and
well that Ed and his men helped on that job, but
they wouldn't let us say so. It's a good thing
we didn't have any story last week about Wayne
Morse's stand on Hell's Canyon dam, it probably
would have turned out to have been a dandy by
the time they got through with it.
They didn't stop with that though, but just who
they were mad at when they ie-arranged last
u;.,.iL. 't, fr,,ni hinin ctrivxr nlwiiit 1 hi, rinfll rirwl
ivi.Mthi.r u'f. ilnn't kiirau Thpu flirt ;) rent inh rm '!(? 7tn an(i Sl n Kde
that one' It was so badly disconnected by the f ve !'le Tuesday, Dec.jald Craber was elected president;
time it got to print we could hardly figure it out'8"1 2:30 the .f,t(!nura for,Roger Doherty, vice president;
ourselves, and we wrote it. ,their parents and friends. Janice MartIrii secretary; and
If the little fellows will keep their hands off! . p mms from Lexington Merlin Hughes, news reporter.
this week, we are cnlne to rerun the weather ' '' t--"j..-u a . lne new leaders are Bernard Do
story here. We've personally checked it at least
three times so if it isn't right this time you'll
girls
SAND HOLLOW-BUTTER CREEK
LIVESTOCK CLUB
The Livestock club held its first
meeting of the year, Sunday Dec.
6 at the 4-H club house, for elec
tion of officers.
Dean Graves, acting president,
called the meeting to order. Don-
Columbia Basin
story about the
Electric Coop linemen out of the
Christmas decorations being put
know one of those Gremlins still carries a grudge.
Here is the story the way it. was supposed to have
appeared last week:
Rainfall for November, 1.98 year far exceeds last year's 11.58 area,
inches, brought Heppner's preci- inches of moisture and is evui Temperatures
pitation for the year to 15.25 further ahead of 1951 when only
inches and already assures 19.53 10.57 inches was recorded. I' is
as being the wettest year in the
past three, with good prospects
of it even surpassing 1950, one of
the wettest years in the past
ten.
A check of records kent by
Heppner weather recorder,
ard Gilliam, shows the yeai's
rainfall to be quite evenly dis
tributed throughout the year
even though there are two
months in which there was no
precipiation or practically none.
July was Ihe driest month when
no measurable rain fell, and
September ran it a close second
when only .03 was recorded. May
was the wettest with 2.33 inches.
The 11 month total for this
Spuds, or Taxes?
eon here Wednesday, Dec. 9.'h,.rty and Dallas Craber.
After the lunch they listened to! N,,w members are Merlin
representatives of Oregon insti-1 Hughes, Martha Doherty and Jan
tutions of higher learning. jPe Martin. Visitors were Mrs.
The Junior class is giving a Dallas Craber, Mrs. John Graves,
dance at the Legion hall Dec. 12. Mrs. Randall Martin and last
The P-TA basketball benefit years leaders, Jerry Brosnan and
games with St. Joseph and lone j0ln Graves,
will be in the new gym. Dec. 18 it was decided that we have
19 at 7 p. m. meetings on the first Sunday of
Superintendent and Mrs. Ches- every month.
ter T Wnrd snpnt Thanksfivintr n,,."ni : . i v,i,i i
equal to the t.U m November. I here have been WIH,uon, in Pnrthmd Sh rP. ' r..,.ii, ,.,..; t ,
C ,ii ,..: i w, dill i i . i ,i - v. ivcinuau i Ut Ilia Ji U( V Oi LVOt
year of U.iO. lo this year s total has dropped below freezing, but ,r mother, and he met her in
'in oe iiuucii men winen nas mere nas neen no severe coin,
fallen in this area since Tuesday. Month by month figures at the
"Too Slow" Driving
Unlawful in Oregon
Pleasure driving isn't pleasant
when you hold up the normal
flow of traffic by driving too
slow.
In fact it's unlawful, the Sec
retary of State's traffic safety di
vision pointed out today. Oregon
motor vehicle law says it's a
violation for "any person to drive
at such a slow speed as to impede
or block the normal and reason
able movement of traffic." Ex
ceptions are trucks and trailers or
other vehicles that cannot go any
faster.
Safety men say the traffic poke
makes for trouble by irritating
following drivers into passing
also nearly
inches that
so far this fall
have been extremely moderate;
too, in contrast with 1952 which
saw the year's coldest weather
Utner areas ot the county have Heppner weather station show
Leon- fared nearly as well as has Ilepp- the following rainfall in 1953:
tier, with Leonard Carlson, ob- January, 1.74
server in the Lightmile section
reporting 11.47 inches in the first
11 months of the year. Figures I'm
the lower end of the county are
not available.
Wheat ranchers are breathin.i
much easier than they were a
year ago as the current rainfall
has well saturated fields and
fall seeded wheat is making ex
cellent progress throughout the
Februarv, 2.02
March, 1.37
April, 1.11
May, 2.33
June, 1.(51
July,
August, 1.83
September, .03
October, 1.23
November, 1.98
December, (2 days I
Arlington the following
Saturday,
4b. 8
Meeting adjourned
Merlin Hughes, reporter.
.23
Rhea Creek News
The Rhea creek II. E. C. Christ
mas party will be Dee. 17 at the
grange hall, with a potluck din
ner at noon. Mrs. Alfred Lov
gren and Mrs. Elmer Palmer will
be hostesses for the day. At this
time members are to bring a
Christmas gift for their "Secret
Pal."
j Mrs. Alfred Lovgren was shop
ping and visiting relatives in
With as many special "weeks"
supposed to observe throughout
as all of us are
the year there
must be at least two for every week of the year,
we usually take one look at the propaganda that
goes with each and promptly forget all about it
unless it has an important connection with our
area or business.
Every once in a while though, someone comes
out with a catchy slogan or title that attracts at
tention and whoever thought up the one for the
current "National Potato Week" campaign de-
c.rw.c ,l,.,iii uv, ..... i i ,,.. .organized Monday
across the top of the front page of the Redmond
Spokesman, a paper mighty Interested in the wel
fare of the succulent spud, particularly Deschutes
Netted Gems, and the farmers who grew them.
In it is contained a lot of common sense.
It said: 'if you don I want to support 'em,
'em."
4-H agricultural club organiza
tion continues with two' clubs re
' organized this week. The first
vas the Sandhollow-Buttercreek
I Livestock Club, which held their ,roruion catiird-iv
Those shopping in Pendleton
this week were Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Wright and daughters,
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Palmer, Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Wright, Mr. and
eat
MERCHANDISE
ION E
School News
By Echo Palmateer
A large number of enthusiastic
fans attended the basketball jam.
tioree at lioardman Saturday
evening. While our boys lost in
the games, we are very proud
re-organizational meeting Minnay
afternoon at the 4-H Club House.
The Irrigon Livestock Club re-
afternoon at
the Irrigon school. Both clubs
have new local leaders with Ber
nard Doherty and Dallas Craber to
lead the Sandhollow-Buttercreek
club this year. It has been led
by John Graves and Jerry Bros
nan for several years. The Irri
gon club will have Donald Leigh
ton as its new leader with Bob
Smith continuing as assistant.
Elected as president of the
Sandhollow-Buttercreek club was
Donld Craber; Vice-president is
Roger Doherty; secretary, Janice
Martin, an dnews reporter, Merlin
Hughes. New members joining
the club this year are Janice Mar
tin, Merlin Hughes, and Martha
Doherty. Other members are:
Dan and Eddie Brosnan, Dennis
Mrs. Harold Wright.
NEED Letterheads, Phone 6-9228,
NOTICE OF FINAL ACCOUNT
Notice is hereby given that the
undersigned administrator of the
estate of Nelson Knighten, de
ceased, has filed with the County
Court of the State of Oregon for
Morrow County, his final account
of his administration of the es
tate of said deceased and said
Court has fixed Monday the 4th
day of January, 1954. at the hour
of 10 a. m. of said day in the
County Court Room at the Court
House at Heppner, Oregon as the
time and place for hearing ob
jections to said final account and
the settlement of said estate; and
all persons having objections
thereto are hereby required to file
same with said Court on or before
the time fixed for said hearing.
Dated and first published this
3rd day of December, 1953.
Elmer Knighten
Administrator
Jos. J. Nys,
Attorney for Administrator
38-42c
when there is not enough clear
ance to do so safely. Your clue
that you may be out of bounds
comes when you find yourself at
the head of a long parade of traf
fic and the man behind is edging
out to the center line waiting for
a chance to pass.
A savvy driver in such a spot
pulls off on the shoulder at the
first opportunity to let the rest of
the parade feed by, the office
advised.
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End of E. Willow St.
P. 0. Box 1544
FOI1 GIFTING
Give Him A
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GIFT
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10 and 12.50
WILSON'S
MEN'S WEAR
The Store of Personal Service
THE OFFICE OF
DR. E. K. SCHAFFITZ
OPTOMETRIST
WILL BE
CLOSED
Monday and Tuesday
December 14-15
Heppner Hotel Bldg.
rhone 6-9465
SUNDAY,
TURKEYS
DECEMBER 13
HAMS
Morrow Co. Gun Club
Doherty, Russell Dolven, Deane
j of the way they played and thejGraves. and Tom Currin.
; possibilities they showed. We; Thirteen members have joined
a re also proud of our yell lead- the Irrigon Livestock Club and
ers and the rooting section. Mhere are hopes of adding more,
i Mrs. Franklin Ely, 5th and (5th Officers were not elected for this
;grade teacher, spent Thursday 1 club but will be done at its first
and Kridav of last week in Port- club meeting.
land where she attended the
Oregon Association Delegation
Assembly. She will give a re
'pint to tiie faculty in a few days.
Another club to organize this
week was the Irrigon 4-H Electric
Club. It is being led again this
year by Mrs. Lloyd Cooley. Presi-
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