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L 18RA8Y 0 OP 0 EUGENE. CR. Copies 10 cents Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, February 18, 1954 70th Year, Number 49 County. Prepared To Store Grain; '54 Crop Estimated Present storage facilities should adequately handle this year's wheat and barley crop in Morrow county, Al Lamb, manager, Mor row County Grain Growers, said at a special meeting of the Grain Growers held Saturday afternoon at the American Legion hall. About 80 persons were present. ine luture storage prospects nave improved greatly in the last few weeks due to the expected transfer of 30,000,000 bushels of regional grain to emergency ship storage through the Commodity Credit Corporation prior to har vest, he said. In addition the reported sale of 15,000,000 bushels of old crop wheat to Japan for March and April makes a total of 45,000,000 bushels of grain to be transfer rea in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Since 85,000,000 bushels of grain under loan are now in storage in the three states, the sale of wheat to Japan and the emergency ship loading will take care of over half the presently stored grain, Lamb pointed out. Additional commercial storage space of 30,000,000 bushels has been or is in the process of con struction in the three states, of which nearly a third percent is in the Portland-Vancouver area. Several million bushels of wheat will also be ground into feed and flour before the new harvest sets in, he added. "While Morrow county has 1, 250,000 bushels of farm storage space constructed or under con struction, this farm storage is ex pected to be increased to a total of 1,400,000 bushels by harvest. Commercial elevator capacity in the county is 2,600,000 bushels, which makes a total storage ca pacity 4,000,000 bushels. This total storage capacity will be re duced by the amount of grain carried over," Lamb explained. the estimated county wheat and barley crop for 1954 is 4,000, 000 bushels. Certain portions of tne county crop are handled in neighboring counties and the Grain Growers have been promi sed terminal storage space at Portland for excess grain, said Lamb. The Grain Growers will con struct unloading facilities on the Columbia river near Boardman providing sufficient funds are raised. Transfer of grain for emergency storage is expected to start the early part of April. To obtain the benefits of early shipping ranchers will be asked to release wheat under loan earl ier than the present release date of April 30. Requests for such releases will be made directly to the rancher. The financial report to Janu ary 31, 1954 showed net earn ings since June 1 in excess of $100,000 and a present net worth of over $600,000. Current assets exceeded current liabilities by a ratio of three to one. In addition total assets exceed total liabili ties three to one. A letter will go out next week to members of the Morrow County Grain Growers association ex plaining in detail the storage and shipping plan given at the meet ing. Information concerning the purchase of unloading facilities at Boardman will be included. o Plans Nearly Done For Hospital Wing County judge Garnet Barratt and hospital administrator John Ernsdorff were in Portland Mon day consulting with architects on revised plans for the new wing for Pioneer Memorial hospital. Barratt said on his return that they have now got the plans re duced to where they are within the county's ability to pay for the expansion, and while some hoped for rooms had to be eliminated, the addition wil be about as planned. It will provide 15 more beds in the general hospital and six in the lower level nursing home. As soon as the redraft is com pleted, the plans will be sent to the public health service for final approval. Gytn -Site r- )ih i Yl $MM HOW PROPOSED HEPPNER SCHOOL would be situated on the Tum-A-Lum site is shown in this sketch. The dotted line shows the present approximate location on Willow Crsek, the channel cf which Projects lo Spur Wheat Use Voted At Wheat League ! Methods of spurring t ho use of wheat and routine business were discussed at the quarterly busi ness meeting of the executive 'committee of the Oregon Wheat i Growers League hold Friday at I the Lexington Grange hall, j The group voted to make a survey of stores and housewives in the Portland area to determine why more bread is not consumed and methods of increasing its sale. A homo economies worker I will be hired to make the surv ey, which is known as the "Portland Project." j A marketing specialist will be sent to India to encourage wheat consumption and to show the people of India how to use and prepare it. ;joe is now the main staple in their diet. These are the mam projects listed on this $1 13.000 budget set up for 1051 committeemen said. A film, "Give Us This Day ' lemng me story oi vvneat since Biblical times, will be available soon for orgination and public ' nn ini. I -1 i it.- ...1 . . would be moved east to about where it is shown in the drawing. The square in the lower right hand , ,r , u"uu"ul" 'e vvncai corner is land which is now occupied by the Heppner Laundry, Richfield station and a few houses l (V,",,(. and it is not proposed to buy this area. . . No attempt has been made to draw the school as it might! .,, ms V .' , ' Pres'dont, May ultimately appear, but only to show approximately where it would be located on the property in I ' m('(Hl over the day ses- relation to hp nronl srhnnl nnA nmn,oim v.,.i: it t, t. t. .:- j i SlOtls Which opened at 10 a. m. - I - w-.u . .....i....u i.. UUIUUIH. 44 1 1 1 U A Uill-n-L.U Ul DIHJ 13 UUUIUVeU DV l 'Til. .. ... the voters at the special election March 4. work of meriarina nlnno nnH enprifirntion nrf 0.11.1' u mnmr mooting was led by mates can be started immediately, and it will leave the Prock-Devin area north of the present school building available for the location of a new gymnasium which will probably have to bo Glen Campbell, Echo, president of the Morrow Count v Wheat built some time in the future. When and if a new gym is built, it will leave the present gym open for the use of the grade school students who will be housed adjacent to it if the elementary building is located as shown here. The present Tum-A-Lum Lumber company buildings are lo cated about where the two right hand wings of the school are shown in the sketch. C of C Talks Indicate Faster Freight Service A group of Union Pacific rail- of Portland on the first train each road officials and representatives, evening which should bet it into of Flatt's Truck Service, met here Arlington early in the morning. last week with members of tin: Heppner chamber of commerce and several members of the Condon chamber to discuss the possibility of faster express and freight service into the Arlington Heppner Condon areas, and re ceived assurances from the rail- From there the freight is deliver ed to the Heppner area and Con don and Fossil by Flatt's Truck service. It was indicated that it should be possible to get such shipments into Heppner by 8 or 9 o'clock in the morning, rather than about noon as is frequently Red Cross Drive Opens March 1 The Morrow county campaign for Red Cross funds will begin March 1, Mrs. Lowell Grower's association. The home economics club of the Lexington Grange served 27 at ihe noon luncheon and 38 at the evening banquet. Dinner speeches were given by Wilson who explained the his tory and importance of the Wheat League and by Kenneth Smouse, lone, vice president of the National League. Smouse, who returned last week from Wichita, Kansas where he at tended the League's national meeting, explained the county road men that everything pos- the case at present, if the proper sible would be done to give this section faster service The request for faster service had been made through the local chamber of commerce and the meeting of the many inter ested parties was called in an attempt to find a solution to the question. U. P. officials told the group that they will make every effort to get the car that carries freight and express for this section out P-TA Congress Meets Feb. 27 at Hermiston The Morrow and Umatilla county regional meeting of the Oregon Congress of P. T. A. will be held Saturday, February 27, at the Hermiston high school, Leslie Grant, regional committee chairman, said today. I The Hermiston meeting is one of 22 regional conferences held in the state under the sponsor ship of the Congress of P. T. A. and the Oregon Education As sociation to discuss school prob lems. ' Morrow county people appear ing on the program include Mrs. Lucy E. Rodgers, chairman of the committee on the state depart ment of education and its func tions; Gene Inskeep, Irrigon scheduling could be worked out The chamber group requested that a special car to carry freight and express -for this section be put on the early fast freight train out of Portland each evening with ihe idea that this car could be dropped off the train at Ar lington. The train now carries such cars which are dropped at The Dalles, Pendleton, La Grande, Baker, and Western Idaho cities. Railroad officials said that at the present time this would be im possible because of the close time schedule the train is now run ning. There is no full-time switch, ing crew at Arlington as there is at the other stops, which would require that the through train do the switching at Arlington. They said the tight schedule made this impossible at the pre sent, but that it was possible that when new defsel engines, now on order, are received, the schedule can !e speeded up to allow time to add the Arlington drop car. The present train is drawn by a steam engine which requires extra stops along the line for water and oil. These would be eliminated when the deisels are put into use. Union Pacific officials who were present for the meeting were M. A. Fuegg, Freight agent, peruana; c. B. Usher, assistant vji iiiun-, ; orfnni79t nn in rnl.it .... , hn county chairman, said today. Thes!alp and natonal rou,,s county quota for this year is, narry Pikerton, Moro, one of $17j0- I the oldest living presidents of the The county Red Cross chapter, Wheat Leacuo told of its found. hopes to secure Chairman and ling at Moro in February, 1928, solicitors ior county towns audi just 2b years ago. It was formed New Condon Elks Lodge To Be Instituted Feb. 27 Heppner Elks Lodge No. 358 will conduct initiation ceremonies for a class of 20 candidates at the dedication ceremonies of the new Condon Elks temple on Feb. 27. Other events on the program are the dedication rites sche oil led alter the .1 p. m. initiation Many of the state's leading Elks including past Grand Exalted Ruler, Frank I.onergan of Port land, will be on hand to assist with the dedication. At 6:3o p. m. Elks and their ladies will he the guests of the Condon lodge for a buffet dinner followed by dancing at 10 p. ni A full program for the ladies will begin al 2 p. m. at the Veteran's Memorial hall with a coffee hour Pouring will be Mrs. Jas. D. Burns and Mrs. Carl Anderson, and hostesses will be the wives of Condon lodge officers and trus tees. At 3 p. m. there will be a style show featuring fashions from Marvel's and Jackson's in Condon I and Eleanors in Arlington. Permanent State Wafer Commission Is Recommended Post Office To Be Closed Next Monday Heppner postmaster James Driscoll reminded residents this week that the post office will be closed Next Monday. Feb. 22 in observance of Washington's birthday, a national holiday. The closure will mean that no mail will be received in Heppner, or other Willow creek valley towns, from Saturday morning until Tuesday morning and that the last outgoing mail until Tues day night will be Saturday night Mail for the Condon-Fossil area must be mailed before Friday night closing, or it will not leave here until Tuesday night, Dris coll said. communities this week. school superintendent 'chairman superintendent, Portland; Lloyd of the committee on the organi-! mie ( slic baggage agent, CROP INSURANCE AGENT COMING TUESDAY The local A. S. C. (PMA) office announced today that Archie Beamer, Crop Insurance agent for Morrow county, will be in the Heppner office all day this com ing Tuesday, February 23. Cecelia Carty, acting office manager, stated that anyone who has questions regarding Federal Crop Insurance should call or come into the ASC office on that day and talk to Mr. Beamer. ; zation of school districts; James Portland; Jack L. Reeves, live Vanover, Lexington school super- ,s' , , , ,luniana Max h intendent, and Ray G. Anderson, )Vari,Pr; llvi'(" superintendent Boardman school superintendent, 'T r;allway Express Agency, at are consultants on the panel con-'a.,,'t, .?a,e, Ashenfelter Jr.. Del ' Cmith Dill .1 T. n T"..i-.- oiiiiiii, uiii riaii anu n. d. r-aion cerned with flrpnnti's prowl ner school population. ; attended from Condon. Fred Martin, lone, president of Lo('al cliaml,pr members who the lone P. T. A. is a consultant1 Participated in the talks were on the group studving methods Ed CoJI,son. Jucl Loyd, Jeff Car if obtaining more effective citizen l'or."harnpcr President, Orvillo participation in school problems :Smith- Bob FIa,t of ePPnpr was and Mrs. L. E. Dick, Heppner, is aal' Prcscnl- member of the panel for the gen -I eral afternoon sessions. Mrs. iT?,E CLOSED Blaine Isom, Pendleton, a former!7 IS WEEKEND Heppner resident, is regional vicej The business office of the Ga president of the state board of the ZHte Times will be closed this O. C. P. T. A. and will appear, Friday and Saturday as the pub on the program. Ilishers Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pen- All county residents are invitodjand will be in Eugene to attend and urged to attend the confer- the Oregon Newspaper Publish ence, Grant said. Registration iers Association press conference opens at 9:15 a. m. and the ses-1 held there Thursday, Friday and sions start at 10 a. m. (Saturday ine Keynote aaciress will be Penland is given ry Dr. trank Bennett, presi dent of Eastern Oregon College of Education. La Grande. His topic lone Board Issues Statement of Joint School Use Proposal Referring to a recent meeting between lone and Lexington school boards at a rural board meeting at which time the possi bility of joint use of the lone high school facilities by the two schools was discussed, the lone board this week issued the fol lowing statement: "The board of education of lone and the school administration wishes to take this opportunity to thank the Lexington school board and the Rural school board for the meeting held recently at the court house. "We are appreciative of the time taken and grateful to all those present." It was signed by the lone board of education and the administra tion. The proposal was rejected by the Lexington board. o Work Started on New School Budgets Local school district boards and budget committees have started preparing their budgets for 1954 -55, Leslie Grant, county school superintendent, said today. Ilardman school board and budget committee met February 3 at the Ilardman school with Adrian Boehdolt, rural school board member, and Grant was also in attendance. The Lexington board and com mittee met Thursday afternoon, February 11, with superintendent to do something about the pro duction and marketing of wheat during the crucial farm economy of that time, he said. The Wheat League grew be yond all our anticipation and served its purpose well, Pinker ton added. The Oregon League is one of the best organized of the state groups and provides three fourths of the national Wheat Grower's budget. the executive committee has previously met in Pendleton, but with the Morrow county meeting initiated a program of meeting in various counties where local ranchers might attend to discuss their special problems. o Speech Festival Set At Teachers Meeting The Lexington teachers were host at a meeting of the Morrow county teachers group of the Oregon Education Association Monday night at the Lexington school. A dinner was served to about 55 members by the Lex ington P. T. A. The Morrow county school speech festival will be held on March 16 at the Boardman school, Mrs. LaVerne Partlow, Boardman chairman of the festival commit tee, reported. The festival will start at 1:30 p. m, and continue into the evening when the one act plays by high school groups will be presented. Marble Cook of the slate O. E. A. staff discussed the insurance program for teachers and Miss Estella Howe, new high school teacher at Lexington, showed slides of Holland, Germany and other foreign countries taken while she was doing secretarial work wilh the occupational forces. DAY AT OSC Grant to begin preliminary work on their budget. Other school ! MEN ATTEND DAD'S Doaros nave not yet set dates lor preliminary budget work. The Rural School Board plans lo visit all county schools during the early part of March to make final audit of local budgets. The final date for these audits is March 15, Grant said. a director of the state association. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hamlin will be 'How Can We Improve, had as their guests over th Our School Through Community weekend, Mr. and Mrs Victoi Participation?" - Anderson of Portland. WYMAN BUYS WHEAT. TREAT BUSINESS Lester Wyman has purchased the wheat treating and cleaning business formerly owned by J. W. "Kit" Carson who was recent ly killed in a plane crash here. Mrs. Glen Parses vnm in Prai rie City last week to be with her mother, Mrs. E. E. Cook, who was seriously ill in the Priri City hospital. Attending Oregon State college Dad's Day in Corvallis over the weekend were Sam Turner who visited his son, Kenneth; Leslie Grant who stayed with his son, Mike; John Bergstrom whose son, Gerald, is a student; Conley Lan ham who visited his son, Mickey, and E. W. Bergstrom, lone, who ;.tayed with his son, Rudy. Pine Pruning Crew Working at Tupper A threee-man crew is prun ing Ponderosa pine trees in the Tupper area of Ihe Umatilla Na tional Forest, Wayne West, forest ranger for the Heppner District, said today. The crew, consisting of Wliilmer Wright, Oliver Cres wick and Walter Ray, have been working on the project for the past six weeks and have the job about half completed. Pine pruning, which is done with hand and machine primers, is done on fast growing, young trees to promote the growth of clear timber, free of knots, West said. Future crops will be ready for harvest in another 100 to 125 years. South slopes in the Tupper area are fairly clear of snow except for shady spots, West said. o March of Dimes Brings In $2462.47 A total of $2,402.47 has been collected on the March of Dimes drive for Morrow county to date, according to Jack Marshall, local chairman. Funds from the various com munities are Heppner $1,719.00; lone, $27(1.40; Lexington, $221.03; Irrigon and Boardman, $229.97; and Ilardman, $12.9fi. Donations are still coming in, Marshall said. o Water resources within the state can best be handled through a permanent water resources commission, according to the group opinion of every county representative attending the Water Resources Committee hearing held Monday at Arling ton. Morrow county representatives attending the hearing were James and Burton Peck, O. W. Cutsforth, Irvin Rauch, Newt O'Harra, and Julian Rauch, Lexington; Henry Raker, and Oscar Peterson, lone; Herbert Hynd, Jack Hynd and George Miller, Cecil; John Wight, man and N. C. Anderson, Hepp ner. About 200 people from Col umbia Basin counties were repre sented at the hearing. Conservation and management of water resources should start n the local water sheds at the source, the group agreed. Several counties asked that new surface and ground water codes be drawn up for the state and that a con stant check should be kept on the water depth In the various areas, using existing wells where pos sible. Conservation of water resour ces for recreational purposes was stressed as an important aspect of the resource picture. The Pendleton Fish and Game Club suggested that live beavers be placed in high mountain streams for dam building to hold back water and prevent flood and ero sion damage. Among the recommendations made by the Morrow county dele gation was the matching of the county funds with state funds to insure reasonable local control, regular recording of stream flow data for issuing water permits and adjudicating water, and the development of dams to hold winter run -off. Early flooding of irrigated lands in the fall and winter to help retain the underground water table was urged. o Heppner Bowlers Take Third in Tourney Heppner's bowling team placed third in the team D division at the state bowling tournament held last weekend at Albany. Members of the team are Walt Barger, Floyd Sayers, Roscoe Kelly, Bill Collins and Conley Lanham. Barger placed second in the single C division runoff. Also attending the tourney were Mrs. Barger, Mrs. Sayers, Mrs. Kelly and Mrs. Collins. Lanham stayed with his son. Mickey, at Oregon state college, Corvallis where he attended the University of WashingtonOrecon State game. Mr. and Mrs. Tress McCllntock. Monmouth, came to Albany to visit with the Heppner group and walch the tournament. McClln tocks are former Heppner residents. Chapman To Speak at C of C Annual Meet Don Chapmanvice president of Equitable Savings and Loan com pany In Portland will be the speaker at the Heppner-Morrow county ehamftor of commerce an nual banquet scheduled for Mon day night, March 1, Jeff Carter, chamber president has announ cec. The banquet, an annual affair of the organization, will be held at the Legion hall starting at 6 p. m. Lions Club Charter Night Set March 20 Arrangements were completed last weekend for a charter night banquet and program for the new Heppner Lions club to be held at the Legion hall Saturday even ing, March 20, president Lowell Gribble announced this week. The banquet is scheduled to start at 7 p. m. and a large group of visitors from Pendleton, Uma tilla, Hood River, and other clubs are expected to be present for the affair. The charter presentation will be under the direction of the Pendleton club which was active In aiding in the formation of the new one in Heppner. o Alvin Bunch wag up from Park dale attending to business mat ters the first of the week. COUNTY POPULATION INCREASES 4.9 SINCE 1950; ESTIMATED AT 5,017 NEW JURY LIST DRAWN UP The new jury list of nearly 250 names released by the county court is published in full in this paper. Circuit court juries will be drawn from the list in 1954. In addition the judges and the clerks of election boards are list ed. The 12 election boards are selected for two year terms. Morrow county's has increased 4.9 percent since 1950, according to a report issued by the Bureau of Vital Statistics of Oregon State Board of Health in Its estimate of Oregon's July 1, 1953 population. The 1950 census showed Mor row county's population to be 4,783 persons. The Health Bu reau estimated and adjusted fig ure gives Morrow county a popu lation of 5,017 as of July 1, 1953. The estimated census figure Is found by a formula which takes into consideration school enroll ments, births, deaths, economic growth and other factors. population a total of 1,018 at the beginning Jk mil oi.uuvi jrm, lJO-Ji. Gilliam county showed an in crease of 8.6 percent with a 1950 census figure of 2,817 and a 1953 estimate of 3,037. Umatilla county increased 12.3 percent. The '50 census population was 41,703 and the '53 estimate was 4fi,813. Grant county showed a nine percent increase with an estimated '53 population of 9,077 over the 8,329 census figure. Sherman county showed the smallest Increase with the esti mated '53 population at 2,300 over the '50 census of 2,271. The largest estimated increase was 17.9 percent in Curry county with Enrollment in Morrow county 7.133 Dersons comnared to the '50 schools rose from 906 in 1952 toj census of 6,048, O o
