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o o es 00 a o HORARY u or o EU3E?:E. ORE. Copies 10 cents Heppner, Oregon Thursday, March 25, 1954 Start of Rhea Creek Road Oiling Set For Summer T1. . e me sunaeing 0I nine miles of the Rhea Creek road appeared nearer a reality this week follow mg a meeting Tuesday of the county court and engineers from the state highway department. The project will be financed jointly by county, state and fed eral funds. The meeting Tuesday tentative ly settled the question of how heavy the roadway.shall be built, and though the state highway department still must approve the agreement, it is hoped that actual work can be started early in the summer. The state will set up the specifications and call lor bids on the job, though when it is completed it will be the county's responsibility to main lain it. The court announced that there is now available for the work a total of $77,364 which has ac cumulated over two years from three funds. Of the total, $10,418 will come from federal funds, the state will furnish $15,472 and the county $15,474. The stretch to be surfaced ex tends from Jordan nine miles up the canyon to the junction with the Clark's canyon road. The road bed will be constructed to a minimum of 2G feet in width with an 18 foot paved strip. This will leave only 10 miles of the road from Jordan to Ruggs without. surfacing, the court indicated If surveys and specifications can be completed in time, it is hoped that the highway commis sion can call for bids on the job either in May or June, Judge Gar net Earratt said Wednesday. . Legion to Celebrate Anniversary With Banquet and Dance The Heppner American Legion Post No. 87 will celebrate its 35th bi-Mulny thi.-. gjiuruuj night' at the Legion hall with a banquet and a dance, post officers an nounced today. It is planned to honor the past commanders of the post as well as all the charter members, and Carl Mosier, Portland, vice com mander. Department of Oregon will be the guest speaker. A social hour will open the event at 6 p. m. followed by the banquet at 7 o'clock. Dancing will start at 10 o'clock to the music of Duke Warner's orches tra. o lone Hoop Squad Credited for Dress Dob Swan, author of The Ore gonian's sport column. Prep Patter, last Sunday complimented the lone high school basketball team for their personal appear ance at the recent tournament at Salem. Swan said, "Teams at the A tournament still have to go some before out-classing the natty ap pearance lone presented a week ago in the B tourney in Salem. The lone club was really snappy in street attire of bright red let terman sweaters, white shirts, bow ties and finely pressed slacks." o Merchants Urged to Use Night Lights Chamber of commerce mem bers were asked Monday by Phil Blakney, chairman of the mer chants committee, to cooperate with a police request that night lights be left on in Heppner stores to aid them in checking against breakins and robberies. Blakney pointed out that it costs very little more to leave a fairly large bulb burning and that it offered a greater measure of protection as police could see inside the buildings much better Blakney also provided the pro gram at the meeting, showing a sound film on trie development.""' " and manufacture of antiboitic dru"-s- I -o I Local Funeral Home To Have New Name Oliver Creswick this week an-! Wednesday noon at their home nounced a change of name for theionRhea creek. Their daughter is Phelps Funeral Home in Heppner. In the future it will be known as Creswick and Seuell Mortuary. Creswick said there will be no change in the ownership or oper ation and stated that Marion Snirll, a partner in the company, will not take an active part in its management. Creswick has oprated the mor tuary for tht pan ive years. Funeral Services Held Here Monday For Anna M. Bayless Funeral services were held Monday, March 22 for Mrs. Anna M. Bayless, 77, who passed away March 19 at Pioneer Memorial hospital. She had been a resident of Heppner for the past 20 years and had lived most of her life in Morrow, Gilliam and Grant coun ties. Mrs. Bayless was born Oct. 28. 1875 at Harrisburg, Oregon, and lived near Arlington for many years. She was married to L. C. Swick and lived near Monument for many years. They had two sons, Howard and Dewey, both ot whom preceeded her in death as did her husband. She was mar ried to W. O. Bayliss about 20 years ago and he passed away five years after their marriage. She had nine brothers and sis ters, all but one of whom are now dead. Surviving her is one brother Lawrence Cochran of Heppner and a grandson, Robert Swick, also of Heppner. Services were held at All Saints tpiscopai cnurcn wnn kcv. jonn R. Reeves officiating. Committal services at Heppner Masonic cemetery were conducted by Ruth Chapter No. 32, O. E. S. Phelps Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. o lolleson Named New President of Hunters, Anglers New officers elected at the meeting of the Morrow County Hunters and Anglers club Tues day night at the court house were Floyd Tolleson, president; Carl McDaniel, vice president; and Len Gilliam, secretary-treasurer. Dr. L. D. Tibbies is outgoing president. During the business meeting it was decided by the group to re affiliated with "the Wildlife Feder ation. Plans .were made to hold a porcupine contest seperate from the raven, crow and magpie con test, and P. W. Mahoney offered to donate the prizes for this con test. A committee was appointed by president Tolleson to set up the rules and regulations for the raven, crow and magpie contest to commence in the near future. This committee consisted of Wil liam Labhart, chairman to be assisted by Ralph Taylor and Ervin Anderson. Continuation of the fishing area along the Stephen Thomp son Willow Creek area for child ren under 14 years of age was also passed by the group. The club decided to hold a meeting every thirty days, the next meeting to be devoted to discussion of the doe season con flict prevelant in Morrow county. State Game Commission agent, Glen Ward presented statistics on the deer nera in morrow county and also gave the tenta tive releases of pheasant and chukker partridges for the en suing year. Two State Game Commission films were shown to the seventy five members present. Guests at the meeting were Fred Larmie, aquatic biologist of the State Game Commission in John Day; Milt Guyman, State Game Commission information representative of the Portland of fice; and Charles Nothwang, state police game officer of John Day. FLAMES DO ONLY MINOR DAMAGE TO BARN . Fire Monday morning caused a small amount of damage to a barn owned by Mrs. A. L. Case beer, north Heppner. It apparent ly started from overheated heat lamp that was being used to warm a chicken brooder. There were even no casualties among the chickens who just moved out when things got too hot for them The blaze was discovered by a passerby who saw smoke coming . ' f rriT- tlio hiiiMincr EQCE pAND THEAXED TO TURKEY DINNER Mr. and Mis. Harold Peck en tertained the 37 members of the Eastern Oregon College of Edu cation band at a turkey dinner a member or me group. The band is touring this sec tion of the state, having given concerts at Arlington Tuesday night, lone Wednesday morning and at Heppner that afternoon. o Glen Ward -and William Lab hart attended the Rod and Gun club meeting in Kinzua Friday night. RONALD CURRIN, named Hepp ner high school Valedictorian. Valedictorian and Salutatorian Named For Heppner High HeDuncr hich school this week named its two top senior student and announced that Ronald Cur rin has been chosen valedictor ian and Adelia Anderson, saluta torian. The two have attained the highest scholastic averages durins their four years of high school. Currin, who is the son of Mr and Mrs. George Currin of Butter Creek, has been very active in s chool affairs. He is now presi dent of the student body, has been president of the FFA and the parliamentary procedure club and of several of his classes, a member of the letterman's club, boys sports editor of the high school paper and has received a chapter degree in FFA. He was last week named FFA state far mer. Adelia Anderson is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Ander son of Heppner and her school activities have included being vice president, secretary and Red Cross Drive Nears Completion Mrs. Lowell Gribble, county Red Cross drive chairman, said today that the drive is within $126 of reaching its quota that she ful ly expects it to go over the top when the remaining seven dis tricts in the county who have not yet reported, send in their money. The drive has raised $1,624 against a quota of $1750. The chairman asked that per sons in charge of solicitation in those districts which have not yet reported in, do so as soon as pos sible. Heppner is complete and the drive here was under the direc tion of Mrs. Kenneth Keeling, o Heppner Hosts Many From District For Episcopal Meet Fifty-two women attended the district area meeting of Episcopal churches held in All Saints church in Heppner Friday, March 19. The meeting started with Holy Communion at 9:30 a. m., fol lowed bv registration in the par ish house wilh Mrs. Frank W. Raker and Mrs. Robert Gammell in charge. The meeting was called into session bv Mrs. uaune oranam, president of the Heppner auxil iary. Miss Hazel Morrison of John Day showed pictures "Sun rise to Sunset" and "Haiti and Drum Beats Calling You", and gave a discussion during the showing. There was also group discussion of missionary work. Following luncheon Miss Mary Johns of Pendleton gave a talk to the group discussing, how do we unite in a group to do God's work. A business meeting was held with Mrs. P. W. Mahoney, Hepp ner; Mrs. Ed Bernice, Milton Freewater; Mrs. Ladd Sherman, Hermiston and Mrs. Lee Foster, Pendleton appointed as the new area chairmen. The next area meeting will be held at Milton- Freewater in the fall. Thse from Heppner attending were Mesdames Robert Gammell, Mary Wright. Frank Anderson, Sr., EJbert Cox, Frank W. Turner, Lucy Peterson, Jos. J. Nys, Roy Thomas, Clarence Rosewall, A. D. McMurdo, L. E. Bisbee, Blanche Brown, Claude Graham, P. W. Mahoney, Frank W. Baker," John R, Reeves, Marion Hayden, Allen Case, Frank Wilkinson, Marv Van Stevens, E. E. Gilliam, C. W. Mc Namer and Frank Anderson Jr. Many others attended from Pendleton, Hermiston, John Day and Milton-Fraewstff. I rj l, t. ADELIA ANDEPiSON, who been named Salutatorian. has treasurer of various classes, sec retary and - treasurer of the chorus, copy editor of the school paper, member of the annual staff, and manager of the girls volleyball team. She also won an award for being the best short hand student in the school. She too, has consistantly been on the honor roll during her four years of high school. The awards to the two students will be announced and presented to them at graduation time, and in addition to the local awards, Currin as Valedictorian becomes automatically eligible for several scholarships to state schools. As a rule the saiuiaiorian is aiso given similar scholarship oppor tunities. o County Bond Sales Show Big Increase Over Last Year Savings bonds sales records in Orecon toppled again as men and women throughout the state con tinued to support their govern ment's sound money program by purchasing 30 per cent more ser ies E and H savings bonds this February than for the same month a year ago. Sales of series II bonds were more than double those of Febru ary a year ago, indicating that more and more people are begin ning to realize the attractiveness of this investment. This increase of 30 per cent compares with a national sales increase of 16 per cent over Feb ruary of 1953, according to Jeff Carter, county chairman. "Total purchases made during the month in the state came to $3,100,936," Carter said. "Sales for January and February of this year were $6.0(J'J,SS0, exceeding purchases for these two monlhs last year by $1,687,500. "February sales for Morrow county amounted to $16,592," Carter added. This brings sales for the first two months of the year to $10,117, which is nearly double that for the same period last year. Property Tax Filing Deadline Friday The assessor's office announced today that all personal property tax filings must be in the office by March 26 to escape a penalty charge of 5 percent. The deadline was extended from March 2 to allow more time, but Mrs. Joseph Hughes, assessor, said that there are still many taxpayers in the county who have not yet filed. She also announced that the deadline for filing of soldier's ex emptions is April 30 and urged anyone wishing to take advant age of it to get their application in before that time. U of 0 Students Here On Search for Native State Songs Mr. and Mrs. Don Heliker of lone had as their guests Tuesday and Wednesday Miss Lee Mo- Gary. Oswe'.;o, and Miss Agnes Weik, a German exchange stu dent from Bemerode, Hanover, Germany. Both are students at the University of Oregon. Miss McGary is in this area collecting words and music of songs sung by native Oregonians for a book to be published by Dr. E. A. Cupler oft he U of O music school. Miss Weik, who is taking a special course in history, ac companied her on the trip to see this section of Oregon. Miss Weik will return to her home in July and Miss McGary will accompany her for a year's stay in Germany. Farmers Warned by PMA Against Early Wheat Shipment Miss Cecelia Cartv. ofifce man- lager of the Morrow county PMA to day warned farmers against any movement of stored wheat which is under CCC loan until de livery instructions are given out through the local office. Miss Carty said that the PMA recently sent requests to many farmers inquiring about early shipment ot stored gram, and ap parently some have misunder stood the instructions, thinking that it could he shipped at any lime. She said that each farmer will be notified by the PMA office when their grain can be shipped. Much of the county's crop that is now stored in local elevators will be shipped to Astoria and other points for storage in sur plus ships to allow storage lo cally for the coming crop. Lions Club Gets Charter Saturday Well over 10() persons attended the charter night banquet of the newly formed Heppner Lions club last Saturday night at the Legion hall and watched as Lions dis trict governor, Cy Perkins of Hood River presented Lowell Gribble. local president Willi ine cuius charter. Master of ceremonies for the evening was Bob Vogel of Pen dleton, a member of the sponsor ing club. Several neighboring clulis presented the Heppner president wilh gifts; Pendleton giving a set of flags, Umatilla a gold Lion, and The Dalles, Mad ras, Hood River and Redmond clubs presented the new club with gavel and bell. The La Grande club will have the charter framed for the new club. Many visitors from the other clubs were present for the ban quet, 18 corning from Pendleton, 14'from Umatilla, six from La Grande and three from Hood River. The Heppner club meets the first and third Thursdays at 6:30 p. m. at O'Donnell's cafe" and during the two months since its beginning has gained 37 active members. o Cattle Volume Continues High HERMISTON Fred Rauch, Lex ington topped the market at the Hermiston livestock auction Fri day with a 310 lb. whiteface calf selling for $25.30 cwt., Delbert An son, manager of the sale reports. Volume of cattle consigned was up somewhat, 417 head compared with 391 the previous Friday. Also consigned were 115 hogs com pared with 63, IS sheep compared with 67 and 2 horses. Cattle prices were generally steady, except for lower grade heifer calves of poorer quality, and finish, bringing 35c to $1.10 cwt. less for a top of $19.60 cwt. Hogs were fully steady, fat hogs up 60c to a top of $28.50, and feeder pigs increased sharply, ris. ing $6.10 to a top of $36.50. Sheep were insufficient to establish a true picture. Demand throughout was broad and brisk. Oregon and Wahington feeder and stock er buyers were active, potato feeders continuing to seek 750 to 900 pound lone yearling feeder steers. Packers were also well represented, including one new Salem packer. Smith and son, Walla Walla, consigned 21 head of registered Angus heifers, two two-year-olds o which brought a top of $350 per head. Calves: Baby calves 7.5019.00 hrl.; weaner calves, steer calves 17.75-21.00 cwt.; heifer calves 16-50-17.80; veal 22.10-25.30. Steers: Stocker steers 16.2017. 75; feeder steers 17.75-19.40; fat slaughter steers 19. i 21.00; iat i C'urrins, ranch on Butter creek, heifers 17.75-19.60. Me started with one grade ewe Cows: Dairy cows 102,50-1 17.50 for a 4 II project in 1947 and has hd.; Dairy heifers 31.00-55.00 hd.; since carried 4 II and FFA pro stock cows 112.50-127.5o hd.; with Meets all through high school. He calves at side to 117.50 pair. now has 10 head of beef, includ Slaughter cows: Commercial; ing seven registered Hereford 5 21.00; fat 11.10-15.85 cvvt.;few light cows to 16.90; utility 12 25-11.50; tanner cutter 9.50 i 1.20; few heavy Hol steins to 12.50; shells 6.25-7.60. Bulls: 13.25-15.90. Hogs: Weaner pigs 13.25-18.00 hd.; feeder pigs 28.25-36.50 cwt.; fat hogs 27.60 28.50; sows 21.50 21.10; no boars. Sheep: Feeder lambs 13.5016. 10 cwt.; No fat lambs; ewes 2.50 710 cwt.; no bucks. Hearing Set on Plan To Withdraw Lands For Game Range The regional administrator of region I of the Bureau of Land Management, Department of In terior, has announced that an open public hearing will be held at the Vert Memorial building in Pendleton starling at !) a. m. on April 22 relating to the withdraw al of 3,085.29 acres of public lands in Grant, Morrow and Umatilla counties in connection with the north fork of the John Day river big game winter range. The bearing will be open to all interested persons who desire to submit their views for and against the withdrawal. o Heppner Band and Chorus to Give Concert Tonight This year's annual spring con cert to he presented by the Hepp ner high school band tonight (Thursday) at 8 p. m. will in clude numbers by the chorus as well as the band group, director James Wilson announced today. Many of the numbers to be pre sented will also be performed at the La Grande music festival in April. Tonight's program will include: Invercargill march; Comedian's Gallop; Two Admirals, overture; Copa Cabana; National Emblem march; Belle of the Ball, waltz; Memories of Stephen Foster by the brass sextet; Night Beat; Stars and Stripes Forever, march, all by the band. Bells of the Sea; By the Bend of the River; Swanee; by the high school chorus. The brass sextet which includes David Cox, Judy Burger, Bob Grabill, Wayne Soward, Alice Peterson and Jerry Ilaguewood is one of the many small ensembles which will appear at the La Grande festival, Wilson said. Proceeds from this concert will be used to finance the trip to La Grande and any remaining money will be put into the new uniform fund recently established by the chamber of commerce. The band recently enjoyed a trip to Salem, sponsored by the Heppner chamber of commerce, and Wilson said that many per sons agreed that the musical group was one of the finest at the tournament. One of the most enjoyable activities of the trip was a guided tour through the state capitol Some of the stu dents had their first taste of hotel living and others had their first fill at a smorgasbord. The generosity of the commun ity in making the Salem trip possible is greatly appreciated bv the band members, Wilson said,; in extending thanks for them. o Mrs. Parrish Named Acting County Clerk The county court Tuesday ap pointed Mrs. Fred Parrish, former deputy county clerk, as acting clerk to serve until the end of this year. The office had been declared vacant by the court last week due to the illness of the former clerk, Charles W. Barlow, and his inability to continue in I ho office. Mrs. Parrish will serve only un til a new clerk can be elected at the general election this fall. She is not seeking the position per manently, but two local men, Bruce Lindsay and Harold liccket have filed for the job. RON CURRIN NAMED STATE FARMER AT FUTURE FARMER CONVENTION Ronald Currin, Heppner high school senior, who was this week named class valedictorian, last week added another honor to his collection when he was named to receive the State Farmer degree at the state Future Farmers of America convention at Corvallis. He operates grain, beef and sheep projects on his fathers, George cows; 14 head of sheep including five registered Hampshire ewes and one buck, and he tills 15 acres of barley. 4-H Livestock Judge Ron has been active in his high school FFA chapter and has been on the chapters livestock judging team for four years. He was also high in the 4-H livestock judging at thePI in 1952 and was a mem ber of the winning 4-H livestock 71st Year, Number 2 Completion of Power Line Hoped By Next Sunday Edgar Collison. manager of the Columbia Basin Electric Coop said Wednesday that the com pany hopes to complete the re building of its main feeder trans mission line from lone to Her miston by this weekend. The line is being strengthened to elimi nate future breaks caused by line failure. The Mat O. Wilson Construc tion company of Portland has had a crew of about 10 men woiking on the line at nights for the past two weeks and Collison said that unless unfavorable weather de lays them, they hope to complete the work by this Sunday night. The lino has to he worked "cold" which means that power must be cut off during the night and the Pacific Power & Light company has been feeding the area during that time from its Fossil substation. The line has been cut out between the hours of 10 p. m. and 5 a. m. and though there has been no outage on the PP&L lines, necessary switching on Hie i;i:. cireuus nas necessi tated about a 30 minute outage to all its customers at those two times. Collison at the same time extended his thanks to his sub scribers for their patience and cooperation during' the outages. He also said that the workmen have found many places on the more than 30 mites ot line wnere the cable was in very poor condi tion and had it not been repaired at this time, there would have undoubtedly been long outages in the future. The reason for the trouble has never been ascer tained, but the rebuilding is de signed to eliminate any future trouble. o Local UN Winner To Compete Friday Lance Tibbies, the son of Dr. and Mrs. L. D. Tibbies, last week won the local contest, and the right to compete in the district for the chance to win the I. O. O. F. sponsored United Nations Pil grimage of Youth trip to New York this summer He will com pete against other local winners at the district meet March 26 at Echo. Miss Jean Marie Graham placed second in the local compe tition and Miss Judy Thompson third. Judges in the Heppner eli mination were Mrs. W. O. George, Bradley Fancher and J. (). Turner. Heppner has had two previous winners for the educational trip, Jack Sumner getting the award in 1952 and Sally Palmer last year. The Echo contest will he held at 7:30 at the high school gym and it will be open to the public. Slides To Be Shown In lone Saturday R. A. Morton of Astoria, father of Mrs. Fredrick Martin, will show slides of particular interest to I gardeners and garden (dub mem bers and slides of general inter !esl, at the Community church in lone Saturday evening March 27 i at 8:30 p. m. ' This is sponsored by the lone Garden club and the public is in vited. o Mrs. Luola Bengtscn, Brenda, Brent and Hilda spent the week end in Portland. judging team at the PI in 1951 and 52. Me was second individu ally at The Dalles fat stock show last year. Two years ago Ron won the Dansforlh award for the out standing 4-11 member in the county and this year he was given Union Pacific's Carl Raymond Gray scholarship as outstanding high .school senior I II member. He has received several other scholarships and awards. Ron has shown some of the top animals at the Morrow county fair, several times showing' the grand champion bull, cow, heifer, buck, ewe and brood sow. In addition to his many FFA and 4-H activities, Ron has also been very active in other school projects and is the top student seholastically in Heppner high school. The Heppner chapter also came back from the convention with an award of its own, having received the Master Chapter award. James Allen is local Instructor,
