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o U OF 0 uGEr, ORE. The MARCH OF DIMES Needs and Deserves Your Support Red Cross BLOODMOBILE To Visit Heppner February 9 Copies 10 cents Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, January 21, 1954 70th Year, Number 45 mum (fu n n '"l7 m-n - ? s- U A W n m n ij Til s n n rn Ann vfily rPfffi ml ffl vaIPH nSf fl ifilllf Power Line Work To Start Monday If Weather Breaks The job of strengthening the Hcrmiston-Ione power line will Etart next Monday according to pian, t.a tollison, manager of the Columbia Basin Electric Coop saw Wednesday, if some "ifs" don't cause delays. The "ifs" in clude if the materials arrive in time and if the cold weather moderates by then. Collison said the necessary ma terials were shipped a week ago and should be here in time, but they had not showed up yet. He also said that it would be nearly Wednesday evenings short power outage in about half of Heppner was caused by a blown fuse at the Heppner sub station. Pacific Power manager J. R. Huffman reported today. It was in no way connected with any difficulty on the main power line. The fuse cut out because of the heavy power load due to the cold weather, Huffman said. New heavier fuses were in stalled last night. impossible for men to work in sub-zero weather and neither the Coop or Pacific Tower and Light, both of whom use the feeder line, would cut off customers, even for short periods, in such weather. If the materials show up and the weal her warms up the line w'ill be cut out of service at about II o clock each 'night starting next Monday and will be cut back in about 7 in the morning. The cutover will necessitate a short outage of just a few min utes on PP&L lines and not more than 30 minutes each time on REA lines. Outage time will only be what is necessary for switch ing. While the line is out of service all customers will be served from the now PP&L substation at Fos sil. The line will be cut out at night only, because the Fossil substation is not large enough to carry the full daytime power load in this area. The night load is much smaller. The line is being strengthened by the addition of Armor-Rod at all poles because recent tests have shown the three previous breaks in the line were caused from vibration on the wires which caused the lines to snap in the holding shoes on the poles. It is not known how long the entire job will take, but proba bly two weeks or longer. o RETURNS FROM PORTLAND HOSPITAL Charles Barlow, who has been under treatment in a Portland hospital the past several weeks, was returned to Heppner Thurs day by ambulance. - t. I - ' " I - if " I ) u'. k h' -;A i i 4 " " t ' i ' I f i : . i I V GIFT TRt County judge uarnet uurratt is pointing 10 an en larged picture of a big Morrow county pine tree which is being presented to him by Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Baker of Kinzua. Thet presentation of the picture was made during a reception at Kin zua last Wednesday honoring the Bcker9 who are retiring from service with Kinzua Pine Mills where he has been since 1929. Holauig the picture are Mr. and Mrs. Eqker and Judge and Mrs. Borratt are admiring it (Condon Globe-Times Pboto) I. 0. 0. F United Nations Tour Contest Rules Announced Heppner Oddfellows officers announced Wednesday that the lodge is again sponsoring a Uni ted Nations tour this year and that a change in the rules will make all sophomore and junior high school students between the ages of 15 and 17 living in Mor row or Umatilla counties eligible for the contest. In previous years the local contest was limited to Heppner students only. Topic of the local contest will be "What the United Nations Means to Me", and each school in the area will conduct its own individual contest. The local con tests must be completed in time to allow the winners to compete in the finals to be held at Echo March 26. As presently planned, this years tour will leave Portland July 8 and will return to there August , 4. The winners will spent the week of July 18 to 24 in New York City. The Heppner lodge also an nounced that any group or or ganization in the area who would like to have last year's winner Sally Palmer speak should con tact the lodge. Sally Palmer won the trip last year, and Jack Sumner was the winner in 1952. Mrs. Hazel Brown Dies in Portland Funeral services for Mrs. Hazel Brown, 44, who passed away Jan. 19 in a Portland hospial will be held Friday at 10 a. m. at St. Patrick's Catholic church in Hepp ner with Rev. Francis McCor- niack officiating. Rosary will be at the church tonight (Thurs day) at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Brown, the daughter of Patrick and Mary McDaid, was bon Feb. 6, 1909 at lone and had spent her early life in Heppner. She attended St. Joseph's Acad emy at Pendleton and graduated from Heppner high school. She is survived by her hus band, Marvin, of Portland, three daughters, Mrs. Patricia ' Maes, Marvel le Brown and Suzanne Brown all of Porland; her mother and stepfather, Mary and Allen Johnston, Heppner; two brothers, Ted McDaid, Tigard, and James Johnston, Heppner; four sisters, Mrs. Agnes Sperry, Mrs. Kath leen Gentry both of Portland; Mrs. Anna Robertson, Toledo; and Mrs. Anna Marie Wilson of Heppner. Interment will be in Heppner Masonic cemetery with Phelps Funeral Home in charge. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Parrish and Mrs. Sara McNamer took Miss Leta Humphreys'to the train at Hikle Sunday, where she left for a two weeks stay in Portland to receive medical attention. Donald Blake, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Blake, has been chosen to Malamute, a men's Sophomore honorary at the University of Washington. Farm Bureau to Observe Week January 24 to 30 Plans are rolling ahead for Farm Bureau Week in Morrow county and a committee headed by county Bueau persident Newt O'Harra and including Frank Anderson, chairman. Roy Martin and Ralph Crum announced that arrangements are complete. Farm Bureau Sunday will be observed Jan. 24 in some churches and a kick-off dinner will be held Monday evening at the Odd fellows hall in Lexington for the membership teams and their wives or husbands. The regular county Farm Bureau meeting will be held at Willows Orange hall in lone Tuesday evening at 8 oclock and representative Allen Tom will discuss the water situation as it is related to water resources. Members of the lone band will present special musical numbers, it was announ ced. The Morrow county court this week issued a proclamation ac knowledging Farm Bureau week which said: "We the county court of Morrow county, recog nizing the value of our farmers to our prosperity and the import ance of their contributions to the welfare of our communities and our country do proclaim the week of Jan. 24 to 30 to bo Farm Bureau Week. "The Morrow county Farm Bu reau has as Us avowed purpose the improvement of agricultural conditions in our country. They are constantly working for a higij level of production, employment income and trade; better educa tion, health, conservation and for greater opportunity for indi viduals to create prorperity. We wish the Farm Bureau every suc cess in the observance of Farm Bureau Week." Members within the centers in the county are teaming together to invite every farm family to become members in the Bureau for the year. It is expected that this work will be completed dur ing the week. , Newt O'Harra, county Farm Bureau president, again stated the purpose of Farm Bureau Week, saying it is to better ac quaint the people of the county with the importance of prosper ous agriculture and the efforts of the Bureau to improve those conditions. "We are trying to do a good job of public relations for agriculture," he said. o Conservation Sign-Up Meetings Set Next Week It has been announced by Miss Cecelia Carry, acting office man- ager of the local ASM (PMA) of-i f; n,of k ; ! be sign up meetings his coming week for conservation practices which Morrow county farmers will want to perform in 1954. The meeting for the Morgan, Eightmile and lone communities will be held on Thursday, Jan. 28 at the American Legion hall in lone starting at 9 a. m., and the Lexington and Alpine communi ties meeting will be on the same day at the Lexington Grange hall starting at 1:30 p. m. The ASC office urges all far mers interested in performing conservation practices in 1954 to attend these meetings as it will be their opportunity to sign a request for assistance for such practices. Two Students on OSC Honor Roll OREGON STATE COLLEGE,; Corvallis Two students from the Heppner Area have been listed on the fall term scholastic honor roll at Oregon State college. Michael Grant of Heppner, a freshman in engineering, and Elise Bauernfeind of Morgan sophomore in home economic, both mvived grade vernM-i of 3.5 jnint or tetter, on the bacis' of an "A" equaling point. j 0$3n'f -?wiw"!,, mb?3!spw I .i.mm PRIMARY OCCUPATION of most has been sledding as the three inches of snow and subsequent freezing weather has made streets. Here three of the younger children try out West Center street before the older children traffic problem. t9 r;" - A n h i k ,"-it C f PAPERS BY SLED-fCrrnmon praciica among most p-iper carriers during the pant few days has been to dehvor by sled as the Ore gonian carrier boys are doing. How they worked out who got to ride and who had to pull, the GT photographer didn't find out. (GT Photos) HEPPNER POLICEMAN'S BELONGINGS BURN ENROUTE TO NEW HOME HERE The household effects of Hepp ner s new nigut marsnan nan a hot" time Tuesday afternoon but their owner, (leorge Heed didn't get much of a kick out of it. While enroute to Heppner. a truck bringing a load of new lur- niture and household goods caught fire a short distance be low Butter Crek Junction Tues day afternoon, destroying prac tically all the furnishings and the truck. The only thing sal vaged out of the load was an electric range and it was badly Enrollment Deadline Near for Ag Class Twenty-seven enrolled persons attended the second vocational ag class in livestock diseases and sanitation Tuesday night at the Heppner high school and heard N. C. Anderson, instructor explain rair M"urs a" 1 vl"u"'" dn" m,n- er;1.1 requiiemems. s dass' "n Jan- ,2(' will be the last opportunity for further enrollment, it was an nounced, and the subject will be lumpjaw, calf diphtheria and shipping fever. It was also an nounced that a representative from Lederle Laboratories will be at the rlar, Feb. 9 to show spe cial films and discuss new cat tle drugs. Sheep Theft Brings Probation Sentence Cobby I). Weems, Spray and Stanfield, pleaded guiliy last week in judge Hagcr's justice court to a charge of petty larceny. He was placed on probation for two years and ordered to repay the owner for two sheep he ad milted stealing. Wr.'ms was arrested by state police after he had admittedly picked up two sheep belonging to Frank Wilkinson. Heppner, and yelling them at the Herrniston Livestock vard. Among those from Hoppner at- teding the I'CA ni"fting in Pen dleton Saturday weie Mr. ami Mrs. Merritt Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Oren Wright, W Wright, Mrs. Anne Smouse, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Kk. Mr. and 'An. Raymond French and Mr. and Mn. Paul HiIer. jt '4 Heppner kids during Ihe past week wonderful sled runs of west side get cut of school and cause a sled 4 S It.''" damaged. Reed was moving to a home in Heppner from Umatilla where he formerly lived and the truck was transporting most of his belong ings when it caught fire. The cause of the blaze is not definitely known though it was thought possible that a thrown cigarette might have been the cause. Total loss was estimated be tween $500 and $C00. Another School Board Meet Set for Tonight There will be another special meeting of the Heppner school board tonight (Thursday) at 8 p. m. at the school, Mrs. Stephen MEETING POSTPONED Tonight's scheduled board meeting has been postponed until next Tuesday night, sup?r intendent H. C. Reed informed the Gazette Times Just at press time. A. L. Beck and Stewart Tufft, who were to be present to aid the beard in making site de cisions, reported by phone early this afternoon that their car had gone off the road on the lower Columbia River highway in a driving snowstorm and that they were unable to make the trip to Heppner because of road conditions. If weather permits they will be here Tuesday. Thompson, board chairman an nounced today. A. L. Reck from the state, de partment of education and Stew art Tufft, architect will be pre sent to give the board more in formation on school site costs and requirements. c ) . Federal Tax Agents Due Here February 1 Taxpayers of this area may ob. tain the aid of internal revenue agents in making out their in come tax returns the director of internal revenue announced this week. Agents will be at the court house in Heppner all day Mon day, Feb. 1 to assist taxpayers, and they will also be available at the Gilliam County Bank in Arlington b. 2 and at the court house in Condon on Feb. ft. Mercury Drops to -15, Heavy Snow Cover Protects Fall Wheat Wednesday's weather in Hepp ner set a record for the year, for not only did it have the lowest minimum temperature, but also the lowest maximum. The highest the official govern ment thermometer registered yesterday was 10 above and Wednesday morning's mini mum was 4 below. An overcast Wednesday night and Thursday kept the mercury above the zero point, though not very far above, as a low of 2 degrees was recorded Thurs day morning. Some snow tell in Heppner this morning and weather reports indicated the possibility of more to come. Just at press time the weather did an about face with temper atures rising from 20 to 30 de grees in an hour's time. Winter's first snow storm and really cold weather decended on ill of Eastern Oregon last week. end blanketing the entire area with from three inches to a foot of snow and the clear weather which followed Tuesday and Wednesday sent thermometers dropping to a three year low. Road conditions in most sections were classified from hazardous to terrible. Tuesday night and Wednesday saw the temperature drop to a reported low of -15 near Lexing- on while lone reported readings of -10 and -12. One spot in Eight- mile and Heppner appeared to be in the "banaii belt" with offi- ial lows of only -4 degrees. Heppner also had less snow than most ol her, sections of the coun try with the government record Hermiston Sale Prices Hold Steady HERMISTON Cornet t Green of Heppner topped the market at the Hermiston livestock auction Friday with a 1520 lb. wliiteface bull that sold for $15.90 cwt., Del'' bert Anson, manager of the sale, reports. Volume of cattle consigned was down but a new high for the year was set in stock cows, J. E. Ben nett of Hermiston receiving $157. 50 per head on fourteen first-calf Hereford heifers. Consigned were 308 cattle compared with 520 the previous Friday. 12o hogs compared with 122 and 121 sheep compared with 718. The low sheep consignment resulted in shifting the semi weekly sheep sale to the next sale, Jan.22. In particular de mand will be breeding ewes and fat lambs, with weaner steer calves, short yearlings, in de mand on the cattle scene.. Cattle prices were fully steady, with better quality feeder steers and fat cattle as well as slock cows, other cattle of generally lower quality. Hogs were steady to slightly higher, with fat hogs of belter quality, other swine of poorer quality. Sheep were too few to set representative prices, and no fat lambs were consigned. Breeding cattle were of high quality, and heifers displayed good flesh. Demand was broad and very active, with both packers and feeders well represented from Oregon, Idaho and Washington. Others topping the market were E. Eingham, Touchet, Wash., 28 feeder lafnbs, 2260 lbs!, $14.70 cwt.; Dean Acock, Irrigon 5 young ewes, $15.25 per hd; Walter Wyss, Boardman, 0 fat hogs, 1175 lbs., $27.90 cwt.; Fred Snyder, Irrigon, 2 weaner pigs, $24.00 per hd.; Don Bellamy, Hermiston, 120 lb. boar, $2.3,75 cwt.; Joe Baumgartner, Hermiston, 4 feeder pigs, 505 lbs., $28.25; O. I. Brooker, Stanfield, 3 sows, 1250 bs.,$22.20; Ned Rob erts, Paterson, Wash., 1 fed Bra hma steer, 1140 lbs., $22.00; Ralph Trow, La Grande, 1 year old Here ford bull, reg., $210.00 hd.; Guy Miller, Pendleton, 1110 lb. white face .cow, $14.80.; Orval Mc Cormaeh, Pendleton, 1000 lb. Brahma bull, $15.50. Calves: Baby calves 7.50-21.00 Continued on Page 8 er checking a total of three inches. Progressively down Wil low creek more snow fell, with Morgan and Cecil checking from six to eight inches and Arlington receiving close to a foot. The heaviest snowfall was recorded all along the Columbia river. Mercury Drops Fast The clearing weather Tuesday brought an abrupt drop in tem peratures late in the afternoon when the mercury dropped from around 20 at 4 p. m. to below zero before midnight. Heppner's -4 was the coldest recorded here since Jan. 29 1951 when it equal led the low of that day. Eightmile weather recorder, Leonard Carl son reported -4 and 5 inches of snow which had a water content of one-half inch. At the Sam McMillan ranch north of lone a 10 was recorded and it was -12 at the Crum Brothers ranch in the same vicinity at midnight Tuesday. Lexington variously reported temperatures from -5 to 15 degrees. The sub zero temperatures ap parently have done little or no damage to wheat, most farmers reported, as the earlier snowfall was heavy enough to give all the fields a protective cover. There was some wind over the weekend that caused drifting in some lo calities, but subsequent falls gave a full snow covering. Driving Hazardous Uoad conditions in upjkt Mor row county generally were fair with the Franklin hill road re ported free of snow Wedesday. From Heppner to lone the high way was clear, as was the Lexington-Buck's Corners highway, but from lone to Heppner Junc tion the road was icy and haz ardous. The worst highway con ditions were reported by state police to be in the Arlington area on Columbia River highway 30 where there was a solid sheet of Ice filled with deep chuckholes that were hard on tires and the driver's necks. The entire length of highway 30 from Portland to Pendleton was reported to be ice covered and police warned against any but necessary travel. There were some reports of drifts In the Rock Creek section of the Heppner Condon highway, early in the storm, but state crews were keeping the road well cleared early this week. Most County Roads OK Nearly all county roads were reported passable with the ex ception of a few in the lone and Eightmile areas. One connecting road between Eightmile and the Condon highway was drifted in, as was one out of Morgan and a few short stretches north of lone. Heppner's streets have been a glare of ice the entire week with chains required to navigate most hills. The layer of white stuff brought out every kid and sled in the area, however, and Hepp ner's west side hill streets have been getting daily workouts from the youngsters. Long range weather forecasts call for more cloudiness this coming weekend with the possi bility of more snow over most of Eastern Oregon. Water Resources Group Plans Meeting The Oregon water resources committee, established by the last legislature, will launch a series of public meetings in Feb ruary to learn the state's water problems. James C. Moore, Oregon State college extension conservation specialist, who is assisting the committee, says all regions of the state will be covered. The committee was set up to look into needs and uses of water, and to study resources and meth ods of conservation. It is to report to the legislature in 1955. Beginning February 15, public meetings are scheduled at Ar lington, La Grande, Ontario, Burns and Redmond. During the week of March 1, the committee will visit Klamath Falls, Med ford, Rosoburg, Coos Bay and Till amook. Willamette valley meet ings will be held later In March.
