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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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