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Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, February 1 1, 1954
70th Year, Number 48
Grain Storage Problem Eases
With Release of Mothball Ships
Start of Local
Grain Shipments
Hoped by April 1
Confirmation received Monday
by Al Lamb, manager of the
Morrow County Grain Growers,
from Senator Guy Gordon in
Washington, D. C. and an an
nouncement the same day by the
Maritime Administration in As
toria that 135 government owned
"mothball" ships at Astoria and
I'uget Sound would be used for
storage of carryover grain, eased
the wheat and barley storage
problem for the coming harvest
and assured an orderly handling
of this county's crops.
Lamb received the telegram
from Senator Cordon Monday
which stated that about 90 ships
at Astoria and 40 in Puget Sound
would be put into use in time
to allow shipment of from 30 to
40 million bushels of the 1953
wheat crop prior to the 1954 har
vest. At the present time, prac
tically all storage facilities in
the area are still full. Upon re
ceipt of the telegram Lamb im
mediately announced his full ex
pectation that all wheat and
barley grown in Morrow county
could be taken care of as harvest
ed in elevator storage now con
structed. Other Construction Helps
To further bolster hopes that
adequate storage facilities will
bo available in 1954 was the an
nouncement by Pete Stallcop of
the Pacific Northwest Grain
Dealers association in Spokane
that new commercial storage
under construction would exceed
23 million bushels of space. This
figure does not include the 5
million bushels of new termi
nal storage facilities at terminal
Mo. 4 in Portland, which was an
nounced Monday. Neither does
it include any on-the-farm stor
age construction.
Lamb advised that his predic
tion of adequate commercial stor
age space for the coming harvest
was based on anticipating the
same total yield of wheat and
barley combined in 1954 as was
produced in 1953. His estimate
was also based, on reports from
Astoria which indicate that ship
ment of 1953 carryover grain to
the idle ships will begin around
April 1. If this is true, he said,
local grain elevators can be
cleared prior to the beginning of
the 1954 harvest.
MCCG Meeting Colled
Further and more complete
data regarding storage outlook
and plans wll be released by the
Grain Growers manager at the
special meeting of the organiza
tion next Saturday, Feb. 13 at
the Heppner American Legion
hall. It will start at 1:30 p. m.
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Jeep Spill on Ice
Inj
iures Jeff Walker
Jeff Walker, Heppner, is in the
Pioneer Memorial hospital suffer
ing from injuries received when
his jeep hit an icy spot on the
Willow creek road about 12 miles
above Heppner and overturned
in the ditch, early Wednesday
morning. He suffered an injured
shoulder and cut arm, but his
injuries were not classified as
serious, it was reported.
Walker was found walking
down the road by Clarence Wrise
and Robert Campbell who were
on their way to work in the area.
They brought him to the hospital
for treatment.
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HOSPITAL NEWS
New Arrivals To Mr. and Mrs.
Charles A. Hunt, Fossil, a 5 lb. 13
oz. girl born Feb. 6, named Ava
Terry. To Mr. and Mrs. Val
Dotolo, Kinzua, a 6 lb. 3 oz. boy
born Feb. 9 named William Val.
To Mr. and Mrs. David Raskin,
lone, twin boys born Feb. 9, Jay
weighed 5 lbs. 12 ozs and Jon
weighed 6 lbs. 6 ozs.
Medical Anita Peterson,
Heppner; Sandra Jean Wells,
Heppner. dismissed; Mrs. Betty
Ledford, Fossil, dismissed; Mrs.
Edith Nichoson. lone, dismissed;
Mrs. Beth McBride, Heppner.
Major Surgery Elmer Mc
Quinn, Spray; Dempy D. Archer,
Condon, dismissed; Mrs. Hazel
Jackson, lone; Mr. Mildwd Mor
ris. Heppner; Shawm Cst, Hepp
ner; Mrs. Mae Hartmn, Heppner.
Out-Patients JeM Beam, La
Grande; Garnet Brfrratt, Heppner.
Minor Surgery Jttff Walker,
Heppner.
WEATHER BOOMERANGS ON HEPPNER,
FOG BLANKET STAYS FOR 12 DAYS
After 12 days of living under a
nearly solid blanket of fog, most
Heppner residents were about
ready to yell "uncle" and see if
they couldn't do something about
the way the weatherman has
been treating them ever since a
week ago Sunday.
The thick, dripping gray blan
ket of fog defended on Heppner
Jan. 31, and until Monday, Feb.
8 the sun never once peeped
through, and then it was for only
a very short period early in the
morning. Tuesday morning
brought even briefer period of
sunshine and then the fog lower
ed the boom on residents for the
rest of the day. A dropping ba
rometer Tuesday and Wednesday
gave indication that a change in
the weather picture might be in
the offing, and though the layer
stayed up around the hilltops
Wednesday, the sun couldn't get
through to brighten up the town.
All of the time Heppner was
lost in fog, the weather forecast
for the rest of the state was for
bright spring-like days. Yester
day however, the state forecast
was for fog, but what that might
Incumbent Files For
Treasurer's Post
The county clerk's office re
ported Wednesday that one per
son has finally filed for one of
the three, or possibly four county
offices which will be vacant at
the end of the present term. Mrs.
Lucy E. Rodgers, incumbent
trasurer, this week filed for re
election on the Republican ballot.
The other offices for which no
are the positions of county judge
one has yet shown any interest
and assessor. There is also the
possibility that the clerk's posi
tion will be open, if the county
court declares the office vacant
as it last week annunced its in
tention to do so.
Filing deadline for the May
primaries is March 12.
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Bloodmobile Visit
Here Nets 79 Pints
Morrow county residents do
nated 79 pints of blood Monday
during the four-hour visit of the
Red Cross Bloodmobile to Hepp
ner. The total was well below
the hoped for take of about 120
pints, but Elks officials, who
sponsored the visit here, stated
they were well pleased with the
response.
Jack Edmondson, chairman for
the program, said that colds and
illness prevalent at this time of
year, cut down the number of
donors considerably, but he and
Red Cross officials indicated that
they were well pleased with the
results.
Edmondson and the Elks ex
pressed their thanks to the many
persons who assisted in the kit
chen and in the necessary typing
etc., and also to those who do
nated. Logging Permits Now
Needed in This Area
SALEM, The state board of
forestry announced in Salem that
a total of 16,232 logging and mill
permits were issued during 1953,
or practically the same number
that were recorded in 1952 A
total of 16.272, highest in the
state's history, were issued in
1952.
Officials indicated that both
years were exceptionally high
compared to previous years as
1919 when 10,702 permits were
issued.
Beginning January 1 of this
year, permits for all power-driven
operations will be required for
both western and eastern Oregon
prior to this year, permits were
required only for western Oregon
operations.
Now, all operators!
must get a combined forest andiLuckman's return to England in
conservation permit from the!
state forester. I
Law requiring operation per
mits came as an aftermath of the
first disastrous Tillamook fire of
1933. Since that time, perm its i
have been used as a means of re
ducing fires in logging opera
tions and protecting seed sour
ces on timberlands. In 1953, log
gers were charged with only 60
fires.
mean here was anybody's guess.
The blanket kept daytime tern.
peratures in Heppner to around
35 degrees, while at night the
mercury dropped just enough to
cause the fog to freeze to trees
and wires.
What made local residents even j
more unhappy was the fact that
a trip of only a few miles in any
direction would take them into
the spring weather that they
were supposed to get at home.
The fog caused one death in
Heppner, that of J. W. "Kit" Car
son, when his plane crashed into
Heppner's west hill Feb. 2:
Death Claims
Mrs. Belle LeFor
Mrs. Belle LeFort, 83 a resident
of this section of Morrow county
for most of her life, died Monday
at a Pendleton hospital. Funeral
services were held Wednesday at
Folsoms Funeral Chapel in Pen
dleton and burial was in the Vin.
son cemetery.
Mrs. LeFort was born in Cut
tingsville, Vermont and came to
Oregon when she was 16 years of
age. She had lived in or near
Heppner and at Huntington
since coming to this country. Mrs.
LeFort was a resident of Hepp
ner at the time of the flood of
1903 and was one of the persons
who recounted her experiences of
that disaster in an article pub
lished in the special flood edition
of the Gazette Times last June.
During recent years she made
her home with her daughter, Mrs.
John Brosnan on Butter Creek.
Surviving, in addition to Mrs.
Brosnan, is another daughter,
Mrs. Paul Correll, Tucson, Ariz.,
and seven grandchildren and 18
great grandchildren. Pallbearers
at the services were Jerry Bros-
nan, Joe Brosnan, John Brosnan,
Eddie Brosnan, Ralph Currin and
John French.
Tax Reappraisal
Meeting Dates OKd
Confirmation of the dates for
the area meetings being held for
the purpose of letting residents
aid in setting land values under
the county tax reappraisal pro
gram, was made this week by
Mrs. Joe Hughes, county assessor.
The dates for the various meet
ings was announced last week,
but some were only tentative at
that time, she said. They have
since been confirmed.
Each of the meetings will start
at 1:30 p. m., it was announced
and residents of each area will
receive cards prior to the date.
The entire list is run here for
reference.
Feb. 16, North Heppner com
munity, court room.
Feb. 17, South Heppner com
munity, court room.
Feb. 18, Eight Mile community,
court room.
Feb .19, lone community, lone
Legion hall.
Feb. 23, Lexington community,
Lexington grange hall.
Feb. 24, Alpine community,
Pine City school.
Feb. 25, Morgan community,
lone Legion hall.
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Wife of Former Local
Man Dies in England
Word was received in Heppner
the first of the week of the death
of Mrs. Walter W. Luckman, the
wife of a former Heppner resi
dent, at her home in Coalbrook
dale, England. She was 71 years
of age.
Mr. Luckman left HenDner dur
ing the summer of 1951, returningl
to his former home in England,
and he and Mrs, Luckman were
married in August of that year.
The two were well acquainted in
their youth, but had not seen
each other for 40 years until Mr.
1951.
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CARD PARTY MOVED
It has been announced by Mrs.
Jack Van Winkle that the Elks
Ladies card party to be held at
2:00 Saturday afternoon, Febru
ary 20 during the day of the Elks
Annual will be held in the Elks
lodge lounge room instead of at
the Legion hall as in previous
1 years.
School Crosswalk
Light Problem
Closer to Solution
Leslie Grant, chairman of the
chamber of commerce school
crosswalk lighting committee,
told the group Monday that
things were looking a little
brighter for getting some type of
warning lights at the two much
discussed crosswalks in Heppner.
A safety engineer from the
state highway department was
in Heppner last week and made
the suggestion that an illumi
nated "Cross-Walk" sign be
placed at the Tum-A-Lum cross
ing on Main street and also said
that the department will work
out a recommended traffic con
trol plan for the three-way inter
section in front of the court
house.-
The chamber, and other local
organizations have been trying
for some time to get the approval
of the state highway commission
to install blinking amber warn
ing lights at the two intersec
tions, but the highway depart
ment has refused to allow their
installation on the grounds that
they were not an approved light,
and -that tests ha dshown them to
be more of a hazard than a bene
fit. The chamber, with other aid.
purchased two of the blinkers
and was set to hang them over
the street, when the highway de
partment intervened. It is thought
that the lights tha twere pur
chased, can be returned to the
manufacturer.
Just what the traffic control
plan for the courthouse corner
will be is not yet known, but the
highway department will prob
ably prepare plans fr it in the
near future, it was reported.
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Cattlemen S ASSn,
ry D II C I C i.
KOnge DUll dale iet
February 12 -and 13
'
Many ranchers from the Pen
dleton area have consigned bulls
to the Oregon Cattlemen's Associ
ation fifth annual Range Bull
Sale to be held in Ontario on Feb
ruary 12 and 13.
Double M Hereford Ranch, of
Stanfield; William Duff. Adams;
Harold Eakin, Grass Valley; F. S.
and Stanley Green, Stanfield;
Richard Larson, Pendleton; Batie
Rand, Irrigon; and Ernest Sires,
Stanfield have offerings for this
annual sale sponsored by the
Oregon Cattlemen's Association.
Jidge Tipplett, well known Wal
lowa County cattleman will serve
as one of the graders. Others are
Harve McDougal, commercial cat
tleman of Collinsvillo, California,
and Paul Muller, Wasco county
cattleman. Dr. William Hansel),
Athena will serve on the sifting
committee with Jim Elings, Ore
gon State college.
The sale will feature 92 Here
fords, 5 Polled Herefords and 13
Shorthorns. The Oregon Short
horn Breeders have joined with
the Cattlemen's Association in
this sale.
Social Security
Benefits Explained
In these uncertain times, the
worker who is insured under the
social security can take comfort
from the fact that a measure of
financial security is guaranteed
him and his dependents through
the payment of his social security
taxes, Social Security representa
tives say. To examine this pro
tection more closely, first, there
are retirement benefits for the in
sured person and his family
when he retires at age 65. And
second, in the event of his death,
monthly benefits are payable to
his dependent cniutren unoer is,
and their mother or,' if his family
grown, to his widow when she
reaches C5. A lump sum death
benefit is also payable to help
with funeral expenses when he
dies no matter at what age. For
further information about social
security payments consult the
social security office at La
Grande.
The field representative from
La Grande social security office
will be at the City Hall in Hepp
ner on Thursday, February 18th,
grom 9:00 A. M. to noon. Resi
dents in this area who have ques
tions about social security are
invited to visit him at that time.
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Representative Sam Coon
Rep. San Coon to
Seek Reelection
WASHINGTON, 1). C. Con
gressman Sam Coon of Baker,
who represents Oregon's second
district in Cogress, announced to
day that he will be a candidate
for re-election..
When first elected, Sam Coon
was named to the powerful Ap
propriations Committee, a rare
honor for a new Congressman.
Expressing himself as being de
voted to the idea of reducing
government expenditures, which
he says will lead further to tax
relief, Representative Coon em
phasized the fact that his com
mittee last year cut the budget
estimates of the previous admin
istration by more than 13 billion
dollars.
A cattle rancher for 22 years,
Sorn Coon is a university gradu
ate, with a B. A. degree in busi
ness administration. He was
State Senator from Baker county
before he was elected to Con
gress.
Hermiston Prices
Holding Steady
HERMISTON O. W. Cutsforth
of Lexington topped the market
at the Hermiston livestock auc
tion Friday with a 1500 lb. while-
face bull that sold for $16.30 and
a I48f lb. registered Dull selling
for $22.60 cwt., Delbert Anson,
manager of the sale, rejiorted.
Volume was up and prices were
steady. Consigned were 310 cat
tle, compared with 273 the previ
ous Friday, 159 hogs compared
with 91, 211 sheep at the semi
weekly sheep sale compared with
48, and 12 horses.
Quality cattle was generally
lower, lacking in the finish of the
previous week, but prices were
steady. Hogs were of the same
quality and steady in price and
sheep were fully steady, lambs
of better quality and ages March
1, lambing ewes bringing up to
$13.50 cwt. Demand was broad
and active, with feeder and far
mer buyers competing and Wash
ington and Oregon packers also
well represented. In current de
mand for the coming sale are
good stock cows ready to calf(
commercial cows and good to
choice fat heifers.
Others topping the market
were R. V. Reed, Spray, 7 feeder
pigs, 790 lbs., $27.60 cwt.; Elbert
Walls, Hermiston, 6 wearier pigs,
$18.00 per hd.; J. E. Bennett, Her
miston, 575 lb. boar, $10.50 cwt.;
Curt Benninghoben, Pasco, 10
mixed lambs, 990 lbs., $18.20;
Marcus Brown, Hermiston, 200 lb.
fat hog, $28.00 per hd.; Ned Rob
erts, Paterson, Wash., 930 lb.
white-face fed steer, $21.00; Harry
Moist rom, Pendleton, 1 registered
bull $252.50 per hd.
Calves: Baby calves 3.50-17.00
hd.; weaner calves, steer calves,
lower quality, 18.50-19.75 cwt.,
heifer calves 17.75-19.20 cwt; veal
22.50-24.75.
Steers: Stocker steers 46.25 17.
60 cwt.; feeder steers 17.60-18.90;
fat slaughter steers 19.50-2100;
fat heifers, no good or choice
grades 17.10-18.60.
Cows: Dairy cows 100.00-112.50
hd; dairy heifers 3l.00-58.fKJ hd;
stock cows 129.00-147.00 hd.
Slaughter cows: Commercial
14.75-1 .00 cwt.; utility 11.75-14.-00;
canner cutter 8.50-11.00, few
heavy Holsteins to 12 90; shells
.50-7.10.
Bulls: 14.10-16.10.
Hogs: Weaner pigs 15.25-18.00
rd.; feeder pigs 25.75 27.60 cwt.;
fat hogs 27.10-28.0JJ; sows 23.10-
24.60; boars 1,575 lbs., 10.50 cwt.
Sheep: Feeder lambs 14.00-16.-10;
fleshy mixed feeder and fat
lambs, up to 18.20 cwt; ewes, 9.50
13.50 hd; bucks 3.50-5.50 cwt.
Weekend guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Fred Parrish were Mr. and
Mrs. Kelly Houston of Ukiah.
Wheat League Exec.
Committee To Meet
Friday at Lexington
The executive committee of the
Oregon Wheat Growers League
will meet Friday at the Lexing
ton Grange hall for their quarter
ly business meeting. Officers of
the Wheat League, standing com
mittees, and executive commit
teemen from eaih of the county
organizations make up the exe
cutive group.
The executive committee have
in the past met at Pendleton but
this year proposed to meet out in
some of the Columbia Basin
counties where it might be pos
sible for wheal farmers to attend
and discuss problems ot their
county organization. Morrow
county is the first county to in
vite the executive committee to
try this plan of operation, and if
it is successful it will be con
tinued. The meeting will start at 10:00
a. m. and will continue during
the day with business of the ex
ecutive committee as the program
for the day. An open meeting
will be held in the evening and
all Morrow county farmers arc in
vited to attend. It will begin at
8:00 p. m. A great share of the
executive committeemen will
stay over for ihe evening meeting
to discuss with our wheat farm
ers the program set up for the
year that the Oregon Wheat
Growers League now have under
way.
Water Resources
Hearing Monday
At Arlington Gym
The slate water resources com
mittee will be listening to water
problems of a six-county area at
1 p. m. Monday, February 15, in
the Arlington grade school gym
nasium. It is the first of a series being
held throughout the state to find
out what water problems are and
what should tie done about them.
The meetings are to gather pub
lic opinion.
Lyle F. Walts of Portland,
chairman of the committee, is
particularly interested in local
water problems of stream pollu
tion, fish and recreation, indus
trial development, irrigation and
drainage, and domestic and live
stock supplies. The committee
also seeks opinions on what
should be done about small dams.
According to Charles A. Tom,
floor leader for the Arlington
meeting, everyone who has a
water problem to present or a
proposed solution to an existing
problem wfll be given an oppor
tunity to be heard.
Watts pointed out that water is
one of Oregon's most important
natural resources, and citizens
have a responsibility to help
solve its problems.
Arrangements to make a state
ment at the meeting can be made
through Tom, chamber of com
merce secretaries or the county
agent, N. C. Anderson. Counties
expected to be represented are
Wasco, Sherman, Wheeler, Mor
row, Umatilla, and Gilliam.
Findings of the stale water re
sources committee are to be sub
mitted to Ihe 1955 state legisla
ture as a pioposed guide for de
veloping the water supplies,
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L. Redding of Carson, Wash
ington, father of Mrs. C. Ervin
Anderson, was taken to Portland
on Wednesday where he will
enter Emanuel hospital for obser
vation. Mr. and Mrs. Jack C. Holt of
Oswego are the parents'of a son,
their second child, born Feb. 3.
The grandmother Is Mrs. C. J. D.
Bauman and the great-grand-
mother is Mrs. Lee Canlwell.
KINZUA PINE MILLS TO GO ON TWO
SHIFT BASIS SOON, CHAMBER TOLD
The mill operation of Kinzua time to cut at the high rate for
i,i,,r, Miii.. ..in , .. ..c.i,ifi! about 3 to 4 years, he said. He
basis some time in May, the
chamber of commerce was told Kinzua to provide raw material
Monday noon by Bob Kennedy,' for the Pilot Rock hardboard
logging manager for Kinzua Pine plant, an operation that will use
Mills Co., and Eastern Logging! up much of the lumber waste
company, its woods affiliate. Thejthat is now being utilized by the
entire operation was purchased, box factory,
several months ago by a group of j Even though available timber
Washington Lumber operators.' will be cut faster than under the
Other changes planned by the past plan, the new operators will
new owners will Include closing cut down to a 16 inch minimum
down the box factory. tree size, which Kennedy said,
Kennedy said that wrile a two-iwill leave ample trees for reforest
shift operation of the big planftalion purposes,
will mean a faster cutting of; The new cutting schedule will
available timber, even at the means about a 50 to 60 million
high rate of cut there is sufficient foot annual cut. Sustained yield
pine area adjacent to the mill toi cutting on the company's hold
sustain it for 15 to 20 years. It.ings would provide around 25 to
Is only planned at the present) 30 million feet annually.
Lex Board Turns
Down Joint High
School Proposal
Members of the Lexington
school board this week made it
known that they have no inten
tion to consider the proposed
combination of the Lexington
high school with the lone school,
as was announced last week fol
lowing a joint meeting of the
Lexington anil lone school boards
with the rural school board. They
also site several cost figures to
bear out their stand, and indicated
that unless the residents of the
Lexington school district them
selves ask for a vote on the ques
tion, they will not call one.
The Lexingtn board said that
a chock of cost figures for the
Lexington and the lone districts
show that Lexington is educat
ing its high school students at a
lower cost per pupil than is lone,
contrary to a statement made
previously. A check of the final
audit report for the 1952-53 school
year shows the pupil-year cost at
Lexington to be $727.23, or $5,479
per pupil day compared W'lth
Ione's cost for the same period
of $878.64 per pupil-year or $5,564
per pupil day.
Budget figures for the current
1953-54 budget, gathered by the
Lexington board and cited by
them as proof of lower costs' at
their school, show a total high
school operation cost of $15,999
for Lexington and $38,6(50 for
lone. This figure divided by the
number of students in each
school (22 at Lexington and 51
at lone) makes the current per
student-year cost at Lexington
approximately $730 while Ione's
is roughly $760.
The board also questioned the
statement that they were having
troubles keeping high school
teachers, and pointed to the fact
that their difficulties in this line
were no greater than were suf
fered by other county schools.
The board, through its clerk,
Mrs. C. C. Carmichael said that it
definitely was not interested in
the proposal, which came from
the lone district, and probably
would not even have attended
the joint meeting had the Invi
tation not been extended through
the rural board.
The proposed plan was to
transport Lexington's high school
students to lone on the premise
that better facilities were avail
there and that education costs
could be reduced. The board said
its figures proved it could save
money by keeping its students
in the present location.
Members of the Lexington
board are Millard Nolan, chair
man; Adolphe Majeske and El
wynne Peck directors. Mrs. Car
michael is clerk.
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C of C Announces
Special Sales Event
Plans are underway this week
for a city wide special sales
event to be held Feb. 2(5 and 27 in
Heppner, Phil Blakney, chairman
of the chamber of commerce mer.
chants committee, sponsors of the
event said today.
The committee is currently
contacting all local merchants
and the event, which will be an
nounced through the Gazette
Times and special advertising on
Feb. 25, is expected to attract
many shoppers to Heppner, by of
fering many special buys during
the two days.
The event is part of a series of
special sales events scheduled
during the year.
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SON BORN
Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Robin
son are the parents of a 7 lb. 8 oz.
son born February 9 at St. An
thony's hospital in Pendleton. He
has been named Kirk LeRoy,
also said that it is planned to
install a barker and chipper at
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