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0 L 1 SRARY U OF 0 EUGENE, OF. E . Copies 10 cents Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, April 1, 1954 Hospital Addition Plans Win Federal Approval Money Representative Sam Coon ad vised the county court and the Gazette Times Monday by tele gram that definite official ap proval has been granted the county for its plans to construct a new wing on Pioneer Memorial hospital. With the approval comes $31,217.22 in Federal Hill Burton funds. Tentative approval of the re cently revised plans was given by the Bureau of Public health seve ral weeks ago, but the telegram gave definite proof that the build ing program has received official OK and that the match-money will be forthcoming. County judge Garnet Barratt said that the architects have now been in structed to prepare plans and specifications that bids may be called as soon as possible. Conn's telegram said, "Glad to advise you Public Health Depart ment has given preliminary ap proval for addition of 15 general beds and public health center to Pioneer Memorial hospital under Hill-Burton program. Estimated Federal share $34,247.22, with to tal estimated cost of project $135, 929. I am advised Federal fund are available and will be re leased when architectural draw ings, local funds and other re quirements have been met." practically all other require ments, mentioned by Coon in his telegram, have been met, it was said by the court. Local funds are available from a special levy passed last year by voters, and as soon as final plans can be pre pared the job can get under way. More than 15 beds are planned for the new wing, but those to be located on the lower level for nursing home use must be built entirely from local funds as the Hill-Burton money cannot be used for this purpose. The two sepa rate functions of the hospital can. however, be built together, as will be done here, with the govern ment aiding in only the con struction of the general hosDital, quarters. ' When completed the new wing will house a total of 21 beds and the public health center. Farms Sought for This Year's IFYE Program in County Farm families who will open their homes to International Farm Youth Exchangees are being sought now, N. C. Anderson, Mor row county 4-H extension agent, announced. Through the exchange about eigiit young visitors from other countries will spend part of the year in Oregon, he said. A young New Zealand dairy farmer is the first one to be as signed to an Oregon visit this year. He is John Matthew Whit lock, 23, of Kairanga, New Zea land. The farm homes at which he will stay have not yet been selected. The International Farm Youth Exchange gives overseas young people, 18 to 28 years of age, a chance to see how Americans live. They live, work, and play with farm families. For each delegate Oregon sends to some other country, two ex changees spend two or three months in the state. Each of these foreign visitors also goes to an other state before returning home. Mrs. Winnifrcd Gillen, state 4-H extension agent heading the IFYE program in Oregon, said each exchangee will probably have an opportunity to stay with two or three different farm famil ies. By this arrangement, they will stay from four to six weeks with each family, workin? with them for room and board. Anderson said additional de tails and application forms for those interested in providing a temporary home for a visitor may be obtained at the county ex'.en tion office, Heppner. o Heppner Student 2nd in U. N. Contest Alberta Dayhuff, Pendleton high school junior, was named winner of the Oddfellows United Nations Youth Pilgrimage trip to New York this summer, at the district finals contest held last Thursday night at Echo. Lance Tibbies, Heppner won second place and will act as alternate. The contest was held before a large crowd at the Echo shool gymnasium. For the la two years, Heppner students have won the contest, Jack Sumner making the trip in 1952 and Sally Palmer last year, ' ' - , ' ' .''-V- - - I' ' , I - ' f ? ' - - r QUEEN GRACE MILLER OF BOARDMAN Miss Grace Miller Named Queen of '54 Fair and Rodeo Miss Grace Miller, pretty 18 man at Eastern Oregon College year old brunett who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell K. Miller of Boardman was this week named queen of the 1954 Morrow County Fair and Rodeo. She was a Fair and Rodeo prin cess in 1952. Queen Grace, who is a fresh- New Highs Set at Hermiston Sale HERMISTON Two new highs were set at the Hermiston live stock auction Friday, Delbert An son, manager of the sale, reports. Three fat lambs weighing 355 lbs., consigned by Earl McKenny, of lone, brought $21.00 cwt., highest price this year. Ten mixed fat hogs weighing 22G5 lbs., brought $29.10 cwt., highest price in a year, to Oscar McCarty, Echo, up sixty cents over the previous Fri day. Earl McKenny of lone also con signed 11 ewes which weighed 1715 lbs., and sold for a top of $21.00 cwt. Kenneth Sinouse of lone toppej the market with a 1090 lb. vvhiteface steer that sold for $21.50. Volume of cattle consigned in creased to 459 head, compared with 417 the previous Friday. Also consigned were 89 hogs com pared with 115 and 80 sheep com pared with 18. Trading was active and de mand broad and active. Prices were fully steady to higher in sp6ts. Fleshy cows of better qual ity were in strong demand and long and short fed steers were steady to 50 cents stronger despite drops at other markets. Quality, flesh and demand contributed to the new high in fat lambs, more of which are needed due to a sea sonal Lenter-Ea-ster demand. Also needed are good quality 700-900 lb. feeder steers, fat slaughter steers and particularly sought are good fat heifers. Oregon and Washington pack-' . i t ..,- ,.n t-ri ers and feeders were active Fri day. Yakima valley potato feed ers buying feeder steers. Farmer buyers took home many stocker cattle. Calves: Baby calves 12.50-29.00 hd.; weaner calves, steer calves 18.50-19.90 cwt.; heifer calves 15.75-18.10 cwt.; veal 22.40-26.70. Steer: Stocker steers 15.80-17.10 cwt.; feeder steers 17.50-19.40; fat slaughter steers 19.75-21.50; fat heifers 10.20-19.50. Cows: Dairy cows 110.00-155.00 hd.; dairy heifers 31.00-42.00 hd.; stock cows with calves at side 121.50-155.00 pair. Slaughter cows: Commercial! wnicn is cnargeo. wnn rne respon 14 60-16.35 cwt; utility 13.10-14.50;! sibility of determining which of canner cutter 9.50 12.00; few! the two Snake river develop heavy Holsteins to 14.00; shells: ment plans is more practicable. 6 25-8 50. I l'e said his company had faith in Bulls: 13.75-16.40. ,ne decision of the commission, Hogs: Weaner' pigs 14.50-18.50) that it would be for the best pub hd f order nie 2S.25-32.9n cwt -llic interest. fat hogs 28.10-29.10 (new top);: sows 22.50-24.35; no boars. Sheep: Feeder lambs 15.50-17.-1 00 cwt.; fat lambs 18.75-21.00: (new top); ewes with lambs at side 16.00 18.00 pr., 6.25 10 20 cwt; no bucks. of Education at La Grande graduated last year from Board man high school where she had been very active in school acti vities. She also has been an ar dent '4-H member having been active in club work for five years. Her special interests were health, clothing, homemaking and cooking with the latter classi fied as her top hobby. She has also been quite active in church vvork. As is expected of a Morrow county queen, she is an excellent horsewoman and has' on many occasions demonstrated her abil ity to ride, nor is she a stranger around a farm, for she has al ways assisted with te potato har vest on her father's farm. Russell Miller is a county commissioner. Two members of Queen Grace's roval court have also been named by their sponsoring granges. They are Deanne Steagall of Lexington and Janet Howton who will rep resent Willows Grange in lone. The other two members of her court are expected to be chosen within a short time. Power Problems Told by Keenan Tom Keenan, district manager of the Pendleton district of Paci fic Power and Light company, Monday noon told the chamber of commerce of the history of power in the Heppner area, sketching the progress madeby his com pany since it took over the dis tribution of electricity here in 1926. Keenan told how power com panies formerly pushed the sale of household appliances to build up the use of power, and then how during and since the war have been -plagued with a short age instead of a surplus. He said the northwest power pool, a vol untary combination of power re- so both private and public, was an excellent example of how both interests could work to gether, and told instances of how close the pool had come to break ing down when demand nearly exceeded supply. He also told of many of the developments that PI'&L had made during recent years to improve its service and increase its generating capacity. Keenan spoke briefly about the Hells Canyon dam controversy and said there were definite and good arguments on both sides pointing out that the settlement of the question was now in the hands of the federal power commission Keenan, who formerly lived in! Heppner, told several amusing instances that occurred during his stay here, when the company was quite young. He was introduced by J. R. Huff man, Heppner PP&L manager. ; More Like Polar Bear jThan Lion, March's j Exit in County ! The weather in this sec! inn of j Morrow county may have looked springlike and pretty early this week, but it didn't feel much like it as the official govoni:"."nt ther mometer in Heppner recorded a low of 13 above zero early Mon day morning. Tuesday's mini mum wasn't much higher, with a 17 above recorded. According to reports, little if any damage was done to wheat or other grains in this area by the cold, nor were fruit trees in this section which are normally slow er starting and in most cases had not yet begun to blossom. The cold wave which hit this) section of the nation over the weekend caused considerable damage in some adjacent areas, especially to fruit trees. Several Washington points reported tem peratures as low as zero. Rains and snow which has fallen during the past week or so have pleased local ranchers, hut the cold spring has retarded the growth of nearly all crops. Cattle men especially are looking for a few warm days ami nights to bring up the grass as most graz ing lands are still praclicalh bare of new grass. ,' Even low temperatures, around 10 degrees, were reported from outlying areas in the county. r) Crash lakes Life Of Dale Olson Dale Ruben Olson, 31, died at Pioneer Memorial hospital last Friday morning of injuries re ceived when the car in which he was a passenger left the Colum bia river highway about a mile west of Heppner Junction and rolled into the ditch. The acci dent occurred late Thursday even ing. Olson was brought to Heppner by the Arlington ambulance hut died within a few hours. He suf fered internal injuries and bro ken bones. According to investi gating police, the car was driven by James Harvey Brarinon. also of Heppner. Olson and Brannon, both of whom were unemployed, had been to Pendleton where Olson received medical aid for an in jury received previously while he was employed at the Heppner Lumber Company. According to the report, they were returning to Heppner, but drove on west of the junction past the detour around new highway construction, then turned around and headed hack east. The accident occurred where the detour leaves the new highway. Olson was horn March 30, 1919 in St. Paul, Minn and had lived in the Heppner area only about a year. He had no known rela tives in this section and police finally located a cousin in Center City, Minn, where the body was shipped early this week for bur ial. u Local 4-Hers Eligible For New Awards Boys and girls carrying 4-H projects in beef, sheep and swine will be eligible for meat animal national awards, N C. Anderson, Morrow county agent, announced. Interested in meat an'mal pro jects has been growing in recent years, Anderson said. In 1945 Oregon youngsters carried 4 S3 beef projects, 522 in sheep and 303 in swine. Last year there were 1386 in beef, 1221 in sheep and 601 in swine. The total grew from 1398 to 3250 in the eight years. The national meat animal awards program has scve.al ob jectives to develop leadership and character, to produce meat for home and commercial use, to learn how animals use feed and produce, to teach the value of home-grown feeds and balanced rations, to see how animals con vert products of the soil into food, and to show how to manage meat animals. Two gold-filled medals of honor are offered for outstanding work in the county. One county win ner is eligible for state competi tion, where a 17-jewel pocket watch is the award. In sectional contests, over the nation, eight trips to the National 4-H club congress are offered, and from those eight winners, six i scholarship recipients are chosen. I Additional details on the beef,; sheep and swine projects may bej obtained from Mr. Anderson at! the county extension office, in! Heppner. Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Cribble nd children were weekend visi tors to Pendleton. U . "- - . - ' 1 L V . . h , " 1 i, . n. -1 b -v ' ; ; ' " - a -1 1 - - : tHV-v'f j . Alt i :,,.:$ $18 WORTH OF COYOTES The coutt hcuse Monday were worth that much in bounties to Mrs, Barbara Luhrs, who caught the cute little fellows on her ranch neai big Butter Creek in the northeast section ol the county. One of the litter's parents was killod but tha other got away- These eight will never bother slioep, for shortly after the picture was taken their shcrt life ended. "MINOR POINTS" CAUSE DELAY IN SOLVING HEPPNER'S "MAJOR CRIME" Except for a couple of minor points, ore of the best news stories of the yeor occurred ct 8:30 last Sunday evening in frcnt of the Heppner city hall when one man was reportedly "shot dead", and ajiother seri ously wounded in a major gun duel over a woman. Local police and the sheu'f were deluged Monday morning with requests for names and details as the story spread around town practically before the sound of the shots had died out. Even the hospital staff reported receiving calls asking about the condition cf the vic tim. As far as the police were con cerned, the minor points men tioned previously consisted LIVESTOCK AND GAME PROBLEMS GET STUDY BY ASSOCIATION COMMITTEES Meeting Thursday evening. March 25, the livestock disease control committee of the Morrow County l.ivostockgrowers Associa tion discussed pertinent problems with which they were concerned. On Friday evening the game laws committee of that association also met. Chairman of the disease con trol committee is Kenneth Peek, Lexington, while Cera Id Swag gait, Heppner, heads the game law s commit lee. for lil.51. The livestock disease control committee met primarily to dis cuss the proposed reduction in the federal indemnity payments for r.ritoellosis reactors. This item has been cut from the fed eral government budget for 1955. The item has cost the federal government $'!.'1,000 during the past ear in Oregon, matching funds put up bv the countv and stale; $l(i has been matched by ?Hi from the stale and county, combined, while during the 1951 fiscal year, the federal indemnity was reduced to $9. The commit tee agreed to write letters to U. S. representatives and senators, the Oregon Cattlemen's Associa tion and neighboring' county live stock associations, urging their efforts in bringing about a con tinuance of indemnity payments. The group felt that this budget was too small to cut out in view of the threat of Brucellosis to both humans and livestock, and that all taxpayers would share alike in this contribution towards in demnity, encouraging livestock operators to test and slaughter re actors. Plans were also made at this meeting to accelerate the Brucel losis and T. B. testing program in Morrow county, and the Bureau of Animal Industry was request ed to contribute an additional veterinarian during the month of April to clear up herds before they left for the summer range. Dr. Ceorge Marugg, local veteri narian doing the testing. Iris tested more animals in the year than any year siru'f past : the program was initiated. The Friday evening game laws committee made several recom mendations for presenting to the general meeting of the Morrow County Livesiockgrowers Associ ation that will be held in early April. Kecommendat ions asked, Crange will meet at Greenfield that the state game commission-Grange in Boardman on Satur be elected by districts instead of : day, April 3 starling at 10:30. appointed by the governor. OtherjTho lecturer's hour opens at 2 recommendations asked that the. p. m. and is open to the public, Livesiockgrowers Association ap-j point a representative to appear! before the public hearing at. Pen-1 dleton on April 22 on the pro-1 posed withdrawal of public lands; along the north fork of the John Day for big game winter pasture; recommended that the state game commission pay one half the sum offered as reward by the county! livestock twoclatlon for a rreiti ;e eight coyoie pups, brought in to (GT Photo) only of the fact that nobody could find the body, the injured man, the woman, the gun, any evidence of the crime or anyone who had witnessed the shoot ing though everybody knew all about it. All were minor mat ters, though somewhat neces sary to police bent on investiga ting such a crime. No one has yet definitely es tablished the source of the story about the city's major crime wave though the Gazette Times' special secret operator uncovered one lead which could solve the pioblem. According to reports, a local businessman in nocently (?) gave out the gory details "just to see how far the story would go." He should know by now. and conviction of theft or trespass cases whim a hunter is involved, and that the stale game commis sion be asked to use some of their funds on a concentrated grass seeding program on logged-off areas which would provide feed lor big game. A ouestion that this committee wished to bring before the live stock members is whether the stale game commission should buy or lease more land for big game winter range. Other re commendations were three that were recommended by this com milloe last year. One asked thai regulations be put Into force re quiring the written permission of the owners of at least 50 of the land involved before opening any special hunting season; that even one become acquainted with game and fish laws and assist in their enforcement by reporting violations. Attending the game laws com miitee were: chairman Cerah Swaggart, W. E. Hughes, and Bob Van Selioiack, Those attending the disease control committee were: Kenneth Peck, Lexington; Jim Lindsay, lone; Bernard Do herty, I!. B. Ferguson, and John (haves, Heppner. N. C. Anderson is secretary for these two com mittees. o Kinzua Infant- Dies Enroure to Hospital Myra daughti Mcl.een morniiij Lee, seven months old r of Mr. and Mrs. Henry of Kinzua died Tuesday ; enroule to Pioneer Me morial hospital. The child had become ill during the previous night and her parents were bringing her to Heppner to a physician, it was reported. Local physicians performed an autopsy, but were unable to find the cause of death. The child was horn in the Heppner hospital and will be buried in Winlock cemeterv in wheeler county. She is survived by her parents and an older bro ther. Pomona to Hear Panel on Schools The Morrow county Pomona il was announced. The main program will be a panel discussion of county school problems pertaining to financing and budgeting. Leslie Grant, (ootily school superintendent will be in charge of the program. Mrs. Sata McNamer left Friday for a vacation trip to Oklahoma where she will visit her brother. 71st Year, Number 3 I Reduction in Butter Support Brings Lower Prices Here The government's announced reduction of S cents per pound i n t h e support price f o r butter was reflected today i:i Heppner in an equally 1 educed retail price for most InvtuU of butter and ice cream. The department of agriculture announced early this week that ii was reducing the support price on butler and butterf.it effective April 1 and Claud Co.v owner of the Morrow County t roamery to day said that the reduction will be passed along to the consumer on all products his company manufactures. He distnhutes Pride of Oregon butler and ice cream throughout Morrow, Cil Ham and Wheeler counties. Cox said that tin1 forme? retail price of butter has been 79 and S;t cents per pound and that il will now be 72 to 71 cents. A similar reduction will be noted in his ice cream products he said, as the new retail prices will be SI. 05 a gallon, 85 ce?its a half gallon, 50 cents a quart and 25 cents a pint. According to stories in Portland papers earlier this week, some Portland dairies expected to cut butter prices about five cents on April 1 and follow with another Ih ree cents reduction later, but Cox said Wednesday that t he price reduction on his products will reflect the full subsidy cut. School Intersection Finally Marked by Crosswalk Sign Heppner finally has ils amber blinking school crosswalk sign hung and in operation on north Main street. Il was quite a strug gle though, for it took nearly six months of letter writing, discus sion and argument to get it ap proved. Wednesday afternoon Kd Co) lison and his crew of linemen from Columbia Basin Electric Co op raised the sign to its position over the school crosswalk -it the Tum-A-Lum corner to end the debate that started last fall when the Soroptimlst club and the chamber of commerce took up the battle to gel a blinker light or some form of warning signal In stalled at the intersect ion used by most school children. Difficulties first arose when Ihe state highway commission re fused to approve an amber blin ker light that had already been purchased by the organizations. It was returned to the manufac turer and the series of consulta tios with the highway department was started in an effort to find out what could be done. The fire sent sign Is the eventual outcome. The bright yellow lighted sign with a flashing amber light at Ihe bottom was donated by the Heppner Lumber company. It Is hoped another sign can be In stalled later at the court house intersection and some money is available for that project. Adult Education Class In History Started An adult education class in Oregon History was started last Tuesday, Leslie Grant, county school superintendent announced this week, and will be held on Tuesdays from 7 to 10 p. m. for the next six weeks. It is being taught by Jack Carmichaol, I'ma. tilla school superintendent. The dass is being held at the Heppner high school and anyone who is interested in taking the course for credit, or to just audit, is urged to contact Grant for re gistration information. Red Cross Campaign Approaches Goal Morrow county's Red Cross campaign continued to sneak closer to its goal of $1750, as one more district reported in to bring the total to $1733.21, Mrs. Lowell Gribble, drive chairman report ed today. The campaign Is officially con cluded and Mrs. Gribble asked that chairmen in the districts which have not yet reported, to do so as soon as possible. o Mr. and Mrs. Jack Van Winkle and children and Mr. and Mrs. Lel!oy Gardner an,i son were in Portland during the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. John Williams were in Baker during the week end visiting Mrs. Williams' par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Faye Conrad. Mrs. William Labhart end sons left Sunday for a visit with Mrs. Labhart's parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry TeU of Monmouth.
